Diplomatic Text
My dr Miʃs Hamilton -- I am much
obliged to you for your kind & Agreable
Present to day of ye Paper of Gold Sand
& for your Attention to your kind thought
of Letting me have it -- I aʃsure you
I admire it much & it is most Acceptable
& I think ye Only Sand it is permiʃsable
to Use -- The Coarser sort fly in ones Eyes
& put them out -- or Spoil ones Cloaths
which is almost as Bad --
I wish much to have ye honor &
Pleasure of waiting on you at Breakfast
on ------ Wednesday Morning next if you can remember so long I shd like to
come ------ before that day but am got terribly
late lately -- & shd not enjoy it so much,
I shall hasten to put up this for fear of Ink
whichwith which by unfortunately spilling a large
Quantity I have cover'd a whole Room so adieu from
yrs H F
Miʃs Hamilton
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Normalised Text
My dear Miss Hamilton -- I am much
obliged to you for your kind & Agreeable
Present to day of the Paper of Gold Sand
& for your Attention to your kind thought
of Letting me have it -- I assure you
I admire it much & it is most Acceptable
& I think the Only Sand it is permissible
to Use -- The Coarser sort fly in ones Eyes
& put them out -- or Spoil ones Clothes
which is almost as Bad --
I wish much to have the honour &
Pleasure of waiting on you at Breakfast
on Wednesday Morning next if you can remember so long I should like to
come before that day but am got terribly
late lately -- & should not enjoy it so much,
I shall hasten to put up this for fear of Ink
with which by unfortunately spilling a large
Quantity I have covered a whole Room so adieu from
yours Harriet Finch
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/1/12/88
Correspondence Details
Sender: Harriet 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 Harriet Finch to Mary Hamilton, thanking Hamilton for her present of her ‘Paper of Gold Sand’. She assures her that she admires the work.
Length: 1 sheet, 159 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 2 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: 27 September 2023