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HAM/1/11/49

Letter from Lady Dartrey (later Lady Cremorne) to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text


[1]


Sepr: 2d
      Monday[2]

Dear Mrs: Dickenson

      Will you & Mr: D and
Miʃs D—— come & take a family
Dinner with us tomorrow
My dr: Lord Cremorne is
so much better, that I shall
be happy for you to see him.
On Saturday he was low &
wearied, but to day he is
remarkably well, & will be
happy in seeing you all at


[3]


4 o'Clock, tomorrow, if you
happen to be disengaged. I hope
all are well,
                             Your's in haste as
usual & very sincerely
                             PCremorne

If you prefer early Tea
I beg you to come at
that time -- if 4 o'Clock
will not hurry Mr: D. we
sd. like that best.

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Notes


 1. The left side of p.1 is blank.
 2. Louisa Dickenson was born in 1787, but as the Cremornes' son Thomas died that October after a long illness, and is not mentioned, it seems likely it dates from no earlier than September 1788.
 3. The left side of p.2 is blank.

Normalised Text





September 2d
      Monday

Dear Mrs: Dickenson

      Will you & Mr: Dickenson and
Miss Dickenson come & take a family
Dinner with us tomorrow
My dear Lord Cremorne is
so much better, that I shall
be happy for you to see him.
On Saturday he was low &
wearied, but to day he is
remarkably well, & will be
happy in seeing you all at





4 o'Clock, tomorrow, if you
happen to be disengaged. I hope
all are well,
                             Your's in haste as
usual & very sincerely
                             Philadelphia Cremorne

If you prefer early Tea
I beg you to come at
that time -- if 4 o'Clock
will not hurry Mr: Dickenson we
should like that best.

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 1. The left side of p.1 is blank.
 2. Louisa Dickenson was born in 1787, but as the Cremornes' son Thomas died that October after a long illness, and is not mentioned, it seems likely it dates from no earlier than September 1788.
 3. The left side of p.2 is blank.

Metadata

Library References

Repository: John Rylands Research Institute and Library, University of Manchester

Archive: Mary Hamilton Papers

Item title: Letter from Lady Dartrey (later Lady Cremorne) to Mary Hamilton

Shelfmark: HAM/1/11/49

Correspondence Details

Sender: Philadelphia Hannah, Baroness Cremorne Dawson (née Freame)

Place sent: unknown

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: unknown

Date sent: not before 2 September 1788
notBefore 2 September 1788 (precision: high)

Letter Description

Summary: Letter from Lady Cremorne (formerly Dartrey) to Mary Hamilton, inviting her, John Dickenson and their daughter to dine with Cremorne.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 114 words

Transliteration Information

Editorial declaration: First edited in the project 'Unlocking the Mary Hamilton Papers' (Hannah Barker, Sophie Coulombeau, David Denison, Tino Oudesluijs, Cassandra Ulph, Christine Wallis & Nuria Yáñez-Bouza, 2019-2023).

All quotation marks are retained in the text and are represented by appropriate Unicode characters. Words split across two lines may have a hyphen on the first, the second or both fragments (reco-|ver, imperfect|-ly, satisfacti-|-on); or a double hyphen (pur=|port, dan|=ger, qua=|=litys); or none (respect|ing). Any point in abbreviations with superscripted letter(s) is placed last, regardless of relative left-right orientation in the original. Thus, Mrs. or Mrs may occur, but M.rs or Mr.s do not.

Acknowledgements: Transcription and XML version created as part of project 'Unlocking the Mary Hamilton Papers', funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council under grant AH/S007121/1.

Transliterator: Tino Oudesluijs, editorial team (completed April 2020)

Cataloguer: Lisa Crawley, Archivist, The John Rylands Library

Cataloguer: John Hodgson, Head of Special Collections, John Rylands Research Institute and Library

Copyright: Transcriptions, notes and TEI/XML © the editors

Revision date: 2 November 2021

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