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HAM/1/12/84

Note from Harriet Finch to Mary Hamilton

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4 March 1783

My dear Miʃs Hamilton
      I was much oblig'd by
your kind Meʃsage to Day
& by one I receiv'd from you
some time Ago & I aʃsure you
how wish'd to wait on you
long before this -- But I think
I have been prevented doing almost
every thing this Winter that I
have intended -- I have lately
had a Cold & been a good deal
Confin'd. But I hope in the
Course of next week to make
you a Morg Visit if I hear
nothing to ye Contrary till Thurs
I shall call -- Believe me dr
                    Miʃs H. much yrs HF

Miʃs Hamilton
      Clarges Street[1]
[2]

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Notes


 1. The address appears vertically in the centre of p.1.
 2. A red wax seal, in the impression of a bird (presumably a finch!) remains intact.

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My dear Miss Hamilton
      I was much obliged by
your kind Message to Day
& by one I received from you
some time Ago & I assure you
how wished to wait on you
long before this -- But I think
I have been prevented doing almost
every thing this Winter that I
have intended -- I have lately
had a Cold & been a good deal
Confined. But I hope in the
Course of next week to make
you a Morning Visit if I hear
nothing to the Contrary till Thursday
I shall call -- Believe me dear
               Miss Hamilton much yours Harriet Finch

Miss Hamilton
      Clarges Street

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 1. The address appears vertically in the centre of p.1.
 2. A red wax seal, in the impression of a bird (presumably a finch!) remains intact.

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/1/12/84

Correspondence Details

Sender: Harriet Finch

Place sent: unknown

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: London

Date sent: 4 March 1783
when 4 March 1783 (precision: high)

Letter Description

Summary: Note from Harriet Finch to Mary Hamilton. She thanks Hamilton for her message and assures her that she wishes to wait on her before now but she has been ill with a cold and hopes to be better in the next week so that she may visit.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 106 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 28 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

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