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HAM/1/15/1/4(2)

Note from Charlotte Margaret Gunning to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text


My dear Friend I am obliged to diʃsappoint
you and myself this Evening for I find it
impoʃsible to manage to come to you
even for the short time I hoped -- as I depend
on my Father who goes both to Mrs
Lyells & Daddy's where Bell wishes me to
go on account of the Ball on Wednesday
if you are not engaged on Tuesday I will
spend it with you comfortably -- adieu
                                                         Sunday
      13th- March 1785[1]

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Normalised Text


My dear Friend I am obliged to disappoint
you and myself this Evening for I find it
impossible to manage to come to you
even for the short time I hoped -- as I depend
on my Father who goes both to Mrs
Lyells & Daddy's where Bell wishes me to
go on account of the Ball on Wednesday
if you are not engaged on Tuesday I will
spend it with you comfortably -- adieu
                                                         Sunday

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 1. This date is written to the left of the dateline.

Metadata

Library References

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

Archive: Mary Hamilton Papers

Item title: Note from Charlotte Margaret Gunning to Mary Hamilton

Shelfmark: HAM/1/15/1/4(2)

Correspondence Details

Sender: Charlotte Margaret Digby (née Gunning)

Place sent: unknown

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: unknown

Date sent: 13 March 1785

Letter Description

Summary: In this note, dated 13 March 1785, Gunning rearranges a meeting with Hamilton.
    Original reference No. 3.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 74 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: Cassandra Ulph, editorial team (completed 17 September 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: 28 April 2023

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