Unlocking the Mary Hamilton papers

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HAM/1/12/93

Note from Harriet Finch to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text


Will you forgive me my dr. Miʃs Hamilton,
not having sent you before  ------ ye Enclosed
patterns I recd from Miʃs Comyns with
her best Compts- to you Long Long
ago Pray forgive me & believe
                             me yrs sincerely
                             Henria- Finch


Miʃs Hamilton
      Prince Ernest's

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Normalised Text


Will you forgive me my dear Miss Hamilton,
not having sent you before the Enclosed
patterns I received from Miss Comyns with
her best Compliments to you Long Long
ago Pray forgive me & believe
                             me yours sincerely
                             Henrietta Finch


Miss Hamilton
      Prince Ernest's

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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/1/12/93

Correspondence Details

Sender: Harriet Finch

Place sent: unknown

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: Kew

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, passing on compliments to Hamilton from an acquaintance that she had meant to do long ago. She asks to be forgiven for not informing Hamilton sooner.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 44 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 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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