HAM/1/15/1/1(3)
Incomplete note from Mary Hamilton to Charlotte Margaret Gunning
Diplomatic Text
14th 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 wch. 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 Dr. T—— Turton tell him I sent this Morng. for 4
Draughts as before, & ye. same opening dose to take
to Kew -- I should like
to know if[1]
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Normalised Text
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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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
Shelfmark: HAM/1/15/1/1(3)
Correspondence Details
Sender: Mary Hamilton
Place sent: unknown
Addressee: Charlotte Margaret Digby (née Gunning)
Place received: unknown
Date sent: 14 June 1781
Letter Description
Summary: This note is dated 14 June 1781, from Hamilton to Gunning, in which she writes that she cannot leave London without writing Gunning a few lines. Hamilton notes that she is ill and has been 'sleeping 3 nights in different Beds' on hard mattresses, which has caused her little rest. She feels nervous and asks Gunning to tell Dr Turton that she has sent for four draughts as she has done before, and will take the same dose. She wishes to know if he approves. She asks that Gunning sends her reply to 'Babel'.
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, 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: 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
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Revision date: 30 September 2023