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HAM/1/11/50

Letter from Lady Cremorne (formerly Dartrey) to Mary Hamilton

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Stanhope St:
      28 Decr
      1812

Dear Mrs: Dickinson

      Owing to an omiʃsion of one of
our Servants
, I did not receive your
meʃsage respecting seeing me, &
desiring me to send to you, whenever
I could see you; until some days
after you sent it; -- and indeed
in consequence of all that has
paʃsed between you, & my dear, and
valued Friend Lady Wake; (which has
been so very painful to her feelings;)
I cannot but consider it must ever
be render our meeting, reciprocally
distreʃsing; & I should think you
would also see it in the same
light. -- I must add, that though
                                                         I could



I could not for the reasons I have given, have the
same pleasure in your Society which
I have hitherto had; I never can
think of your's and Mr: Dickenson's
kindneʃs to my dear Child, when
      he was under your
      Roof, without much
      gratitude; & that I shall
always feel truly interested in
every thing that concerns
you, and Yours. -- being
                             Dear Mrs: Dickinson,
                                Your sincere &
                                much obliged,
                                       PCremorne
I hope you are
all quite well.
Lord Cremorne is much better -- [1]


[2]
I pray you think that when we m[et]
we were that of parting
but like ------ Autumn sun ytwhen set
we ------feel ye: force of parting



Lady Dartrey
to Mary Hamilton

[3]
      Le plus eloigné
      Le plus serré




Lady Cremorne

Mrs: Dickenson
      Devonshire Place

                             [4]

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Notes


 1. This postscript appears to the left of the salutation and signature.
 2. The second sheet is a small piece of paper with 2 clear vertical folding lines.
 3. A picture of two birds holding a piece of string between them was drawn in the middle of the page.
 4. Below the address is an almost intact red seal.

Normalised Text


Stanhope Street
      28 December
      1812

Dear Mrs: Dickinson

      Owing to an omission of one of
our Servants, I did not receive your
message respecting seeing me, &
desiring me to send to you, whenever
I could see you; until some days
after you sent it; -- and indeed
in consequence of all that has
passed between you, & my dear, and
valued Friend Lady Wake; (which has
been so very painful to her feelings;)
I cannot but consider it must ever
render our meeting, reciprocally
distressing; & I should think you
would also see it in the same
light. -- I must add, that though
                                                        



I could not for the reasons I have given, have the
same pleasure in your Society which
I have hitherto had; I never can
think of your's and Mr: Dickenson's
kindness to my dear Child, when
      he was under your
      Roof, without much
      gratitude; & that I shall
always feel truly interested in
every thing that concerns
you, and Yours. -- being
                             Dear Mrs: Dickinson,
                                Your sincere &
                                much obliged,
                                       Philadelphia Cremorne
I hope you are
all quite well.
Lord Cremorne is much better --



I pray you think that when we met
we were that of parting
but like ------ Autumn sun when set
we feel the force of parting





     




Mrs: Dickenson
      Devonshire Place

                            

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 1. This postscript appears to the left of the salutation and signature.
 2. The second sheet is a small piece of paper with 2 clear vertical folding lines.
 3. A picture of two birds holding a piece of string between them was drawn in the middle of the page.
 4. Below the address is an almost intact red seal.

Metadata

Library References

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

Archive: Mary Hamilton Papers

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

Shelfmark: HAM/1/11/50

Correspondence Details

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

Place sent: London

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: London

Date sent: 28 December 1812

Letter Description

Summary: Letter from Lady Cremorne (formerly Dartrey) to Mary Hamilton. She writes of a disagreement between Hamilton and Lady Wake and of the distress that it has caused Lady Wake. Because of this Cremorne writes that she 'cannot but consider it must render our meeting, reciprocally distressing; I should think you would also feel it in the same light. She adds that she could not, for the reasons given, 'have the same pleasure of your society which I have hitherto had'.
    The second sheet is a drawing done by Lady Wake of two birds.
    Dated at Stanhope Street [London].
   

Length: 3 sheets, 215 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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