Unlocking the Mary Hamilton papers

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HAM/1/12/90

Note from Sophia Fielding (née Finch) to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text


My dr. Miʃs Hamilton my Sisr. is not up so
I cannot get thro' the rooms to yours wch. will
be a sad disappointment to her wch. she does
not yet know of having I dare say hoped
any minute I shd. send down for her
M. is better           Yrs. sincerely
                                            S. F.

I have been hearing yr. praises
sang this Mg. but I shall not tell
you in this by whom


Miʃs Hamilton[1]

                             [2]

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Notes


 1. The address line is written vertically in the middle of the page.
 2. Remains of sealing wax in the bottom-right corner of the page.

Normalised Text


My dear Miss Hamilton my Sister is not up so
I cannot get through the rooms to yours which will
be a sad disappointment to her which she does
not yet know of having I dare say hoped
any minute I should send down for her
Mother is better           Yours sincerely
                                            Sophia Fielding

I have been hearing your praises
sang this Morning but I shall not tell
you in this by whom


Miss Hamilton

                            

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 1. The address line is written vertically in the middle of the page.
 2. Remains of sealing wax in the bottom-right corner 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/1/12/90

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: A brief note from Sophia Fielding to Mary Hamilton, noting that she is unable to get to her rooms.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 74 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 9 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

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