Diplomatic Text
My dr- Miʃs Hamilton -- Will you forgive my
taking a very very great Liberty -- in requesting
I see you ------ here tomorrow Morng- for about half
a Moment before you go to ye Queen's House --
I shd take it as ye greatest favor -- & would be
ready at our Bed Chamber door to open it for
you myself -- ------------------------ I wd come to you -- But really
have had so little Sleep lately -- & by an accident
of our Coach not coming we were so late
to night home -- that I know I shall not be
dreʃt in time tomorrow -- so as to be able to venture
to your Rooms -- & catch you before your time
of going to your Attendance -- I have much
to say on that Subject & others in ye Short
minute I flatter my self this long preface
may incline you to indulge wme with --
In ye mean time let me aʃsure you
with ye same Tooth Pick that has trac'd ye
above[1]yt I am sincerely yr Oblig'd
H. F.
25th. Febry. 1780 Friday Night 2 o'Clock, or rather Saturday Morng
I have not had my drst- Mor- out of my Mind a
moment all Day -- But will not say more now
Miʃs Hamilton[2]
red text is normalised and/or unformatted in other panel)
Normalised Text
My dear Miss Hamilton -- Will you forgive my
taking a very very great Liberty -- in requesting
I see you here tomorrow Morning for about half
a Moment before you go to the Queen's House --
I should take it as the greatest favour -- & would be
ready at our Bed Chamber door to open it for
you myself -- I would come to you -- But really
have had so little Sleep lately -- & by an accident
of our Coach not coming we were so late
to night home -- that I know I shall not be
dressed in time tomorrow -- so as to be able to venture
to your Rooms -- & catch you before your time
of going to your Attendance -- I have much
to say on that Subject & others in the Short
minute I flatter my self this long preface
may incline you to indulge me with --
In the mean time let me assure you
with the same Tooth Pick that has traced the
abovethat I am sincerely your Obliged
Harriet Finch
25th. February 1780 Friday Night 2 o'Clock, or rather Saturday Morning
I have not had my dearest Mother out of my Mind a
moment all Day -- But will not say more now
Miss Hamilton
quotations, spellings, uncorrected forms, split words, abbreviations, formatting)
Notes
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/1/12/80
Correspondence Details
Sender: Harriet Finch
Place sent: unknown
Addressee: Mary Hamilton
Place received: unknown
Date sent: 25 February 1780
Letter Description
Summary: Letter from Harriet Finch to Mary Hamilton. She writes that she takes the Liberty of requesting to see her the following day before she goes to Queen's House. She would see it as a great favour and will wait at her bed chamber door for her. She would visit Hamilton herself but has had very little sleep that she knows that she will not be dressed in time to catch Hamilton in her rooms before she goes to her ‘attendance’. She writes that she has much to tell her on ‘that subject & others’.
Length: 1 sheet, 205 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 8 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