Diplomatic Text
Mr. Glovers joint love
------------ with mine to our Dear
Miranda; shall be glad to
hear ------ what sort of a night
you had last night; & what
ever advice you may have
Occatsion for, from Mr. G:,
or any aʃsistance from me,
you may command it at any
time, upon this unhappy Occatsion;
& we shall always look upon
you as our best & dearest Child;
& when ever you give it in
our power, to had to your happineʃs,
you may depend upon it.
Mr. Glover had a very bad
Night, last Night, but I
thank God not so much
in his head, great pain
in both feet, & all over
his body, his expreʃsion
was, he felt, as if he had
been broke a peices &
was ill put to gather a
gain; but I thank God
this Morning he has had
ʃome hours of good and
quiet Sleep, & is now in
a violent perspiration;
Adieu my Dear Miranda
love to Kitty E Glover
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Normalised Text
Mr. Glovers joint love
with mine to our Dear
Miranda; shall be glad to
hear what sort of a night
you had last night; & what
ever advice you may have
Occasion for, from Mr. Glover,
or any assistance from me,
you may command it at any
time, upon this unhappy Occasion;
& we shall always look upon
you as our best & dearest Child;
& when ever you give it in
our power, to add to your happiness,
you may depend upon it.
Mr. Glover had a very bad
Night, last Night, but I
thank God not so much
in his head, great pain
in both feet, & all over
his body, his expression
was, he felt, as if he had
been broken a pieces &
was ill put together again
; but I thank God
this Morning he has had
some hours of good and
quiet Sleep, & is now in
a violent perspiration;
Adieu my Dear Miranda
love to Kitty Eleanor Glover
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Metadata
Library References
Repository: John Rylands Research Institute and Library, University of Manchester
Archive: Mary Hamilton Papers
Item title: Letter from Eleanor Glover (née Lenton) to Mary Hamilton
Shelfmark: HAM/1/13/4
Correspondence Details
Sender: Eleanor Glover (née Lenton)
Place sent: unknown
Addressee: Mary Hamilton
Place received: unknown
Date sent: 30 November 1778
Letter Description
Summary: Letter from Mrs Eleanor Glover to Mary Hamilton. She offers Hamilton any advice and assistance that she or Mr Glover can give on this occasion [the death of Hamilton's mother]. Mrs Glover writes that she has always considered Hamilton 'as our best & dearest child'. She continues her letter on the health of Mr Glover.
Length: 1 sheet, 167 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 4 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