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My Dear Miranda
I have been made very
happy in hearing such good accounts from
time, to time; of you & and your sweet Babe,
going on so well; I hope at present you
have not a thought in leaving Bath till
April, upon the account of your Dear Child,
not being able to bear the shake of so
great a journey; you know I love you both;
& it was always my intention to pay you a
visit, before you left Bath; but I must
know tell you how I am circumstanc'd,
a neice of mine is come up to Town, to
be married; & I can't leave London till
the 22d. of March, having busineʃs to
settle with her intended Spouse. --
it's a match, I very much approve of,
He being a sensiable Man, & a Man of
good character; therefore I must dread
my Purse strings. pray give me an
answer to this, for if time suits,
I shall write to Mrs. Prattinton for
Lodgings; Mary & I intend to set off
Post. I suppose your saucy husband,
now he has arrived to the honor of being
a father, there wil be no bearing him
I am in great haste.
yours affectionately
E Glover
my love to your good Dickinson --
Mrs. Glover
Feby 27 -- 1787[1]
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My Dear Miranda
I have been made very
happy in hearing such good accounts from
time, to time; of you & and your sweet Babe,
going on so well; I hope at present you
have not a thought in leaving Bath till
April, upon the account of your Dear Child,
not being able to bear the shake of so
great a journey; you know I love you both;
& it was always my intention to pay you a
visit, before you left Bath; but I must
now tell you how I am circumstanced,
a niece of mine is come up to Town, to
be married; & I can't leave London till
the 22d. of March, having business to
settle with her intended Spouse. --
it's a match, I very much approve of,
He being a sensible Man, & a Man of
good character; therefore I must dread
my Purse strings. pray give me an
answer to this, for if time suits,
I shall write to Mrs. Prattinton for
Lodgings; Mary & I intend to set off
Post. I suppose your saucy husband,
now he has arrived to the honour of being
a father, there wil be no bearing him
I am in great haste.
yours affectionately
Eleanor Glover
my love to your good Dickinson --
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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/1/13/44
Correspondence Details
Sender: Eleanor Glover (née Lenton)
Place sent: London
Addressee: Mary Hamilton
Place received: Bath
Date sent: 27 February 1787
Letter Description
Summary: Letter from Mrs Eleanor Glover to Mary Hamilton, on the good accounts she has heard of her baby. She hopes that she will not leave Bath until April as the journey will be too great. Glover had hoped to visit Bath to see Hamilton put is prevented from doing so at present as one of her nieces is in town to be married and she has business to settle with her ‘intended spouse’.
Original reference No. 21.
Length: 1 sheet, 213 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 30 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