Unlocking the Mary Hamilton papers

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HAM/1/12/82

Note from Sophia Fielding (née Finch) to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text


My dr. Miʃs Hamilton -- I have just had a Letter
from my Mother containing still a favorable
acct. of herself except for her Deafneʃs wch.
Dr L. C. (as well as she) mentions as rather
worse than better as well as the singing in
her head -- she desires a thousd. thanks for ye
enclosed paper & for your very kind Letter wch
quite pleased & delighted her & which she
will answer very soon herself --
                             Yrs. most sincerely
                                            S. F.
Wednesday E.


To
Miʃs H[amilton][1]

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Notes


 1. The address line is written vertically towards the left-hand side of the page.

Normalised Text


My dear Miss Hamilton -- I have just had a Letter
from my Mother containing still a favourable
account of herself except for her Deafness which
Dear L. C. (as well as she) mentions as rather
worse than better as well as the singing in
her head -- she desires a thousand thanks for the
enclosed paper & for your very kind Letter which
quite pleased & delighted her & which she
will answer very soon herself --
                             Yours most sincerely
                                            Sophia Fielding
Wednesday Evening


To
Miss Hamilton

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 1. The address line is written vertically towards the left-hand side of the page.

Metadata

Library References

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

Archive: Mary Hamilton Papers

Item title: Note from Sophia Fielding (née Finch) to Mary Hamilton

Shelfmark: HAM/1/12/82

Correspondence Details

Sender: Sophia Fielding (née Finch)

Place sent: unknown

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: unknown

Date sent: between June 1777 and November 1782
notBefore June 1777 (precision: high)
notAfter November 1782 (precision: high)

Letter Description

Summary: Note from Sophia Fielding to Mary Hamilton. She writes that she has received letters from her mother Lady Charlotte Finch who gives a good account of herself.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 85 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 29 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: 27 September 2023

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