Diplomatic Text
My dr Miʃs Hamilton -- I had almost engaged myself to
Ly Hertford to go with her to ye Opera on Saturday -- But Miʃs
Tryon has been so good humour'd this E—— about our Request
I shd like so much to be of ye Party we have 2 Years intend'd
that I shall certainly put Ly H. off till Tuesday -- If you like we
shd send to Miʃs Tryon which I said I would do tomorrow Morning
when I heard from you -- Send me an Answer now -- I or
Adieu yr oblig'd & Obedt
Henria Finch
St Jameses
Thursday Night 11 o'Clock 6th- Janry. 1780
I fear I cannot breakfast with you yet but I will certainly
some day next week if I live
Miʃs Hamilton[1]
[2]
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Normalised Text
My dear Miss Hamilton -- I had almost engaged myself to
Lady Hertford to go with her to the Opera on Saturday -- But Miss
Tryon has been so good humoured this Evening about our Request
I should like so much to be of the Party we have 2 Years intended
that I shall certainly put Lady Hertford off till Tuesday -- If you like we
should send to Miss Tryon which I said I would do tomorrow Morning
when I heard from you -- Send me an Answer now --
Adieu your obliged & Obedient
Henrietta Finch
St Jameses
Thursday Night 11 o'Clock 6th- January
I fear I cannot breakfast with you yet but I will certainly
some day next week if I live
Miss Hamilton
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Notes
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/1/12/79
Correspondence Details
Sender: Harriet Finch
Place sent: London
Addressee: Mary Hamilton
Place received: unknown
Date sent: 6 January 1780
Letter Description
Summary: Note from Harriet Finch to Mary Hamilton. She is ‘almost’ engaged to go to the opera with Lady Hereford on Saturday but will certainly try to put her off so that she can be with Hamilton’s party.
Dated at St James’s [London].
Length: 1 sheet, 122 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: Christine Wallis, editorial team (completed 29 May 2020)
Cataloguer: Lisa Crawley, Archivist, The John Rylands Library
Cataloguer: John Hodgson, Head of Special Collections, John Rylands Research Institute and Library
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Revision date: 2 November 2021