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HAM/1/13/7

Letter from Eleanor Glover (née Lenton) to Mary Hamilton

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M[y] ------------------------



      I have this moment re-
-ceiv'd
my dear Mirandas letter; & I am
very sorry She shou'd have cause to think
herself neglected by those who love her. --
I must take upon me to acquit our friends
at the Cottage
, for they have left the Dale[1]
above a Month ago; & to my certain know-
-ledge
they have writ several times, &
by them I have sent my excuses; but
I am sorry to say that family affairs have
effected our spirits so much that we cou'd
not persuaid our selves to put pen to paper
I have never seen your Dear friend
Leonidas so much out of spirits, since
I have had the honor to be connected
to him; this is under the rose --
At present our House is full, the



Bulls Croʃs family
[2] & Mr. Mckonishie,
I hope the latter will be with us
for some time, I flatter my Self
it will doe Mr. G: a great deal of good;
& how happy shall we be to see you
at Sunning hill; Mr. Glover & his
friend M: is gon to a Sale this Morn-
-ing
, a Mr. Wm. Pitt, wee all whent
last Tuesday, & I bought a Carpet.
I greatly rejoice that you are once
more a free Woman; that Affair
hurt Mr. G: very much at the time;
if he dont return too late for the
Post, I will get him to write a
few lines in the frank; I am sorry
to say that every disagreeable thing
puts him out of sorts now, which



was once not the case -- But with
pleasure I can inform you he Drinks
the Waters with great suckceʃs. --
& I hope in time he will get the better
of those things that now hurt him.
Mary desires her love, She behaves
herSelf very well, & I hope forever
will; I shall not conclude
without leting you know that I am
certain, that I shall love you
to the last period of my life.
                             Adieu my Dear ------[3]
                             Miranda -- E Glover
Sunning hill
Sepr. 28th. 1780
Sist. Eliz: Mrs. Lenton desires her best Compliments



Mrs. Gl—— Septr. 29th 1780[4]


Washing -- 4-5
Cambric 3-3
Hopkins 10-10
Cloth 2-12
Lottery Tu 2-5
Powder &c 4-7
Dartrey -- 0-6
F--- 0-7
Bruyeres -- 0-5[5]
Chaise -- 0-76
Webb -- 3-9
Box -- 1-14-6
Mrs C Maid 0-5-0
Lace -- 8-10-0
174[6]
85
47-1[7]
14
61 10

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Notes


 1. Sunningdale.
 2. Richard Glover's sister and brother-in-law, Elizabeth and Christopher Strothoff, lived at Bull's Cross.
 3. Probably friend.
 4. This annotation is written vertically in the right-hand margin of the page.
 5. A Mr Bruyeres appears in HAM/1/15/2/7, a draft letter from Mary Hamilton to Charlotte Gunning.
 6. These figures appear to have been added on a different occasion to the main list and are partially erased or rubbed. They have been moved from their original place at the top of the page to their current position.
 7. These figures also appear to be from a separate list and have been partially erased. They have been moved from their original place on and below the last entry for 'Lace'.

Normalised Text



My ------------------------




      I have this moment received
my dear Mirandas letter; I am
very sorry She should have cause to think
herself neglected by those who love her. --
I must take upon me to acquit our friends
at the Cottage, for they have left the Dale
above a Month ago; & to my certain knowledge
they have written several times, &
by them I have sent my excuses; but
I am sorry to say that family affairs have
affected our spirits so much that we could
not persuade our selves to put pen to paper
I have never seen your Dear friend
Leonidas so much out of spirits, since
I have had the honour to be connected
to him; this is under the rose --
At present our House is full, the



Bulls Cross family & Mr. Mckonishie,
I hope the latter will be with us
for some time, I flatter my Self
it will do Mr. Glover a great deal of good;
& how happy shall we be to see you
at Sunning hill; Mr. Glover & his
friend MacKonochie is gone to a Sale this Morning
, a Mr. William Pitt, we all went
last Tuesday, & I bought a Carpet.
I greatly rejoice that you are once
more a free Woman; that Affair
hurt Mr. Glover very much at the time;
if he don't return too late for the
Post, I will get him to write a
few lines in the frank; I am sorry
to say that every disagreeable thing
puts him out of sorts now, which



was once not the case -- But with
pleasure I can inform you he Drinks
the Waters with great success. --
& I hope in time he will get the better
of those things that now hurt him.
Mary desires her love, She behaves
herSelf very well, & I hope forever
will; I shall not conclude
without letting you know that I am
certain, that I shall love you
to the last period of my life.
                             Adieu my Dear
                             Miranda -- Eleanor Glover
Sunning hill
September 28th. 1780
Sister Elizabeth desires her best Compliments






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 1. Sunningdale.
 2. Richard Glover's sister and brother-in-law, Elizabeth and Christopher Strothoff, lived at Bull's Cross.
 3. Probably friend.
 4. This annotation is written vertically in the right-hand margin of the page.
 5. A Mr Bruyeres appears in HAM/1/15/2/7, a draft letter from Mary Hamilton to Charlotte Gunning.
 6. These figures appear to have been added on a different occasion to the main list and are partially erased or rubbed. They have been moved from their original place at the top of the page to their current position.
 7. These figures also appear to be from a separate list and have been partially erased. They have been moved from their original place on and below the last entry for 'Lace'.

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/1/13/7

Correspondence Details

Sender: Eleanor Glover (née Lenton)

Place sent: Sunninghill

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: Eastbourne (certainty: medium)

Date sent: 28 September 1780

Letter Description

Summary: Letter from Mrs Eleanor Glover to Mary Hamilton. She is sorry that Hamilton believes that she (Glover) has been neglecting her and she hopes to see Hamilton at Sunning Hill soon. The letter continues with general news. She writes on Mr Glover's health and notes that he had gone to a sale that morning and that she is happy that Hamilton is 'a free woman' once more.
    Dated at Sunning Hill.
    Original reference No. 2.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 349 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 8 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: 20 October 2023

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