Diplomatic Text
My Dear Miʃs Hamilton
I take the earliest oppartunity, of
answering your kind letter. My Dear
Father still has the gout in his foot,
which hinders us from going into the
country this week: I have heard nothing
more of going to Bath; I hope there will
be no occasion for it. Mamma desires
her kind love, & thinks for prudence,
& all good quality's, you are a pattern
to your sex, Mr Matthias brought the
money himself, he is an old acquaint-
ance of my father's. I think it was last
Tuesday; but am not sure. I hope you are
very well; I will write to you again
next week, to let you know how we go
on; we din'd at Chealsea yesterday.
Mrs Aufrere inquir'd after you.
I am dear Miʃs Hamilton
Yours ever to command
M Glover
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Normalised Text
My Dear Miss Hamilton
I take the earliest opportunity, of
answering your kind letter. My Dear
Father still has the gout in his foot,
which hinders us from going into the
country this week: I have heard nothing
more of going to Bath; I hope there will
be no occasion for it. Mamma desires
her kind love, & thinks for prudence,
& all good quality's, you are a pattern
to your sex, Mr Matthias brought the
money himself, he is an old acquaintance
of my father's. I think it was last
Tuesday; but am not sure. I hope you are
very well; I will write to you again
next week, to let you know how we go
on; we dined at Chealsea yesterday.
Mrs Aufrere inquired after you.
I am dear Miss Hamilton
Yours ever to command
Mary 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 Mary Glover to Mary Hamilton
Shelfmark: HAM/1/13/9
Correspondence Details
Sender: Mary Glover
Place sent: unknown
Addressee: Mary Hamilton
Place received: unknown
Date sent: 22 October 1781
Letter Description
Summary: Letter from Mary Glover to Mary Hamilton. Her that her father is suffering from gout in his foot which prevents them from going into the country this week. Glover has heard nothing further about travelling to Bath and hopes that there will be no occasion for them having to go there. She sends her love from her mother who describes Hamilton as a 'pattern to your sex' and continues with news of a Mr Matthews, an acquaintance of Mr Glover's, bringing 'the money himself' to the Glover's home.
Original reference No. 3.
Length: 1 sheet, 142 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 9 June 2020)
Cataloguer: Lisa Crawley, Archivist, The John Rylands Library
Cataloguer: John Hodgson, Head of Special Collections, John Rylands Research Institute and Library
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Revision date: 2 November 2021