Single Letter

HAM/1/12/74

Letter from Harriet Finch to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text


6th. Janry. 1779

My dear Miʃs Hamilton I really have wish'd so much to take ye
first opportunity of waiting upon you that I can not let
this Day Paʃs off like ye former ones since Janry 1st
without telling you that I was yesterday absolutely
sptepping forth to have your Doors open'd for my
Paʃsage to yr Appartment when I was taken with
a sudden faintneʃs, a thing not very usual to me
but which occasion'd my paʃsing a very unpleasant
day, this having been repeated more than once
I was really unable to think of leaving our
own Appartment -- & am detain'd at home
to day more from Prudence tho' I do not
feel quite well -- Dont mention to my Mother
anything of this my dr Miʃs H -- if you will
be so good -- as I know she never suffers these
catastrophes where she goes conʃtantly -- I am
sure I shall be well enough to morrow to have ye
pleasure of calling on you if you do not object to
my doing so -- I will come before you go to ye
Q. H. if you like it or any other time    Adieu
      believe me yr. Oblig'd & Sincere humbl
                                                         Sert --     Harriet Finch


Wednesday 2 o'Clock



Miʃs      Hamilton
St Jam      es's[1]

(hover over blue text or annotations for clarification;
red text is normalised and/or unformatted in other panel)


Notes


 1. The addressee's name is split in two, with different orientations, by unfolding.

Normalised Text



My dear Miss Hamilton I really have wished so much to take the
first opportunity of waiting upon you that I can not let
this Day Pass off like the former ones since January 1st
without telling you that I was yesterday absolutely
stepping forth to have your Doors opened for my
Passage to your Apartment when I was taken with
a sudden faintness, a thing not very usual to me
but which occasioned my passing a very unpleasant
day, this having been repeated more than once
I was really unable to think of leaving our
own Apartment -- & am detained at home
to day more from Prudence though I do not
feel quite well -- Don't mention to my Mother
anything of this my dear Miss Hamilton -- if you will
be so good -- as I know she never suffers these
catastrophes where she goes constantly -- I am
sure I shall be well enough to morrow to have the
pleasure of calling on you if you do not object to
my doing so -- I will come before you go to the
Queen's House if you like it or any other time    Adieu
      believe me your Obliged & Sincere humble
                                                         Servant --     Harriet Finch



Wednesday 2 o'Clock



Miss      Hamilton
St James's

(consult diplomatic text or XML for annotations, deletions, clarifications, persons,
quotations,
spellings, uncorrected forms, split words, abbreviations, formatting)



 1. The addressee's name is split in two, with different orientations, by unfolding.

Metadata

Library References

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

Archive: Mary Hamilton Papers

Item title: Letter from Harriet Finch to Mary Hamilton

Shelfmark: HAM/1/12/74

Correspondence Details

Sender: Harriet Finch

Place sent: unknown

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: unknown

Date sent: 6 January 1779

Letter Description

Summary: Letter from Harriet Finch to Mary Hamilton. She does not feel well enough to leave her apartment and asks that Hamilton not tell her mother Lady Finch.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 208 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: Cassandra Ulph, editorial team (completed 14 May 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

Document Image (pdf)