Unlocking the Mary Hamilton papers

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HAM/1/12/73

Note from Harriet Finch to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text


My Dr Miʃs Hamilton I intended calling on you this
Morning  --- dded to ye pleasure I proposed
to myself in waiting upon you, I likewise
wish'd to inform you tho unwillingly that Monday
next is entirely not the day destind for
our being Seen in Public together -- I
really decline the Agreeable Party  ------ very much
against  ------ my inclination but cannot poʃsibly
continue to go -- Adieu     yor     H. F.


Janry. 3d 1779


Miʃs Hamilton
St James's[1]

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Notes


 1. The direction is split in two, with different orientations, by unfolding. As a result, half of the text now appears in the middle of the page and the other half appears vertically in the bottom-right corner.

Normalised Text


My Dear Miss Hamilton I intended calling on you this
Morning  --- dded to the pleasure I proposed
to myself in waiting upon you, I likewise
wished to inform you though unwillingly that Monday
next is entirely not the day destined for
our being Seen in Public together -- I
really decline the Agreeable Party very much
against my inclination but cannot possibly
continue to go -- Adieu     your     Harriet Finch


January 3d 1779


Miss Hamilton
St James's

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 1. The direction is split in two, with different orientations, by unfolding. As a result, half of the text now appears in the middle of the page and the other half appears vertically in the bottom-right corner.

Metadata

Library References

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

Archive: Mary Hamilton Papers

Item title: Note from Harriet Finch to Mary Hamilton

Shelfmark: HAM/1/12/73

Correspondence Details

Sender: Harriet Finch

Place sent: unknown

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: unknown

Date sent: 3 January 1779

Letter Description

Summary: Note from Harriet Finch to Mary Hamilton, arranging to wait upon her.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 75 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 5 June 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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