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HAM/1/12/95

Note from Harriet Finch to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text


Mrs- Dickenson
No 4 Bolton Street[1]



Dear Mrs- Dickenson
My Mother told me you
were so kind to wish to
see me I am not visitd
often in a Mg. But
if you wd like to come
to me this E. you wd-
find Mrs Carter with me
or wd- you like Monday


or Tuesday E—— I hear much
of your little Girl --
      Adieu believe
           me Yrs very sincerely
                             Harriet Finch


[2]

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Notes


 1. The address appears on the left in the middle of the page.
 2. This side of the sheet is blank.

Normalised Text


Mrs- Dickenson
No 4 Bolton Street



Dear Mrs- Dickenson
My Mother told me you
were so kind to wish to
see me I am not visited
often in a Morning. But
if you would like to come
to me this Evening you would
find Mrs Carter with me
or would you like Monday


or Tuesday Evening I hear much
of your little Girl --
      Adieu believe
           me Yours very sincerely
                             Harriet Finch


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 1. The address appears on the left in the middle of the page.
 2. This side of the sheet is blank.

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/1/12/95

Correspondence Details

Sender: Harriet Finch

Place sent: unknown

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: London

Date sent: not before 1787
notBefore 1787 (precision: high)

Letter Description

Summary: Note from Harriet Finch to Mary Hamilton. Lady Finch had informed Harriet Finch that Hamilton had come to visit her and notes where she is now staying and invites her to visit her there. She writes that Elizabeth Carter may be with her and that she has heard much of Hamilton’s ‘little girl’.
    [The note is addressed to Mrs Dickenson and mentions her daughter Louisa so it dates from 1787 or later.]
   

Length: 1 sheet, 71 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: 2 November 2021

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