HAM/1/15/1/1(3)

Incomplete note from Mary Hamilton to Charlotte Margaret Gunning (later Digby)

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                                                         14^th June 1781
      I cannot bear to leave London without sending
You a line & this is the only moment since we
parted that I have been able to do so -- I am very
far from well, & sleeping 3 nights in different
Beds & upon hard mattraʃs's w^ch. I am not used to,
has quite destroy'd my rest, I am so extremely
Nervous I can hardly hold my pen steady. if
You see D^r. T—— Turton tell him I sent this Morng. for 4
Draughts as before, & y^e. same opening dose to take
                             to Kew -- I should like
                                                         to know if^[1]

14 June 1781^[2]

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      I cannot bear to leave London without sending
You a line & this is the only moment since we
parted that I have been able to do so -- I am very
far from well, & sleeping 3 nights in different
Beds & upon hard mattresses which I am not used to,
has quite destroyed my rest, I am so extremely
Nervous I can hardly hold my pen steady. if
You see Dr. Turton Turton tell him I sent this Morning for 4
Draughts as before, & the same opening dose to take
                             to Kew -- I should like
                                                         to know if

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Metadata

Library References

Repository: John Rylands Research Institute and Library, University of Manchester

Archive: Mary Hamilton Papers

Item title: Incomplete note from Mary Hamilton to Charlotte Margaret Gunning (later Digby)

Shelfmark: HAM/1/15/1/1(3)

Correspondence Details

Sender: Mary Hamilton

Place sent: London (certainty: high)

Addressee: Charlotte Margaret Digby (née Gunning)

Place received: unknown

Date sent: 14 June 1781

Letter Description

Summary: This note from Hamilton to Gunning is dated 14 June 1781. She cannot leave London without writing Gunning a few lines. Hamilton is ill and has been 'sleeping 3 nights in different Beds' on hard mattresses, which has destroyed her rest. She is very nervous and asks Gunning to tell Dr Turton that she has sent for four draughts as before, and will start with the same dose.

Length: 1 sheet, 100 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, M^rs. or M^rs may occur, but M.^rs or M^r.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: Tino Oudesluijs, editorial team (completed 13 October 2020)

Cataloguer: Lisa Crawley, Archivist, The John Rylands Library

Cataloguer: John Hodgson, Head of Special Collections, John Rylands Research Institute and Library

Revision date: 12 February 2026

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