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HAM/1/15/1/4(3)

Note from Charlotte Margaret Gunning to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text


      My dear, I send you two Tickets for tomorrow
for the Eidouranion[1] -- Mr Walker sent them to me
but the Oratorio prevents me going. if you intend
making use of either or both -- keep them -- if not
return them to Mr Walker -- he did not know your
addreʃs -- it is to be at the Little Theatre, Haymarket
tomorrow -- very well worth seeing -- Price 5s --
adieu how are you? My throat very sore --
                                                         yours CMG --
167th- March 1785[2]

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Notes


 1. A kind of transparent orrery, or magic lantern, used in astronomical lectures, a precursor of the modern planetarium. Adam Walker (1730/1-1821), the maker of the original eidouranion, began exhibiting his device in the 1760s and had moved to London in 1781. (For more on Walker's career, see Jan Golinski, 'Sublime Astronomy: The Eidouranion of Adam Walker and His Sons', Huntington Library Quarterly 80:1 Spring 2017.)
 2. This annotation appears to the left of the salutation.
 3. The back of the note is not visible on the image here but can be seen behind the notes pasted on the back of this document in HAM/1/15/1/4 p.1. It may say something along the lines of 'Evening' or 'Morning', indicating the moment that this note was written. The rest of the address panel cannot at present be viewed due to how the notes have been pasted together.

Normalised Text


      My dear, I send you two Tickets for tomorrow
for the Eidouranion -- Mr Walker sent them to me
but the Oratorio prevents me going. if you intend
making use of either or both -- keep them -- if not
return them to Mr Walker -- he did not know your
address -- it is to be at the Little Theatre, Haymarket
tomorrow -- very well worth seeing -- Price 5 shillings --
adieu how are you? My throat very sore --
                                                         yours Charlotte Margaret Gunning --


                                                        
                                                        

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 1. A kind of transparent orrery, or magic lantern, used in astronomical lectures, a precursor of the modern planetarium. Adam Walker (1730/1-1821), the maker of the original eidouranion, began exhibiting his device in the 1760s and had moved to London in 1781. (For more on Walker's career, see Jan Golinski, 'Sublime Astronomy: The Eidouranion of Adam Walker and His Sons', Huntington Library Quarterly 80:1 Spring 2017.)
 2. This annotation appears to the left of the salutation.
 3. The back of the note is not visible on the image here but can be seen behind the notes pasted on the back of this document in HAM/1/15/1/4 p.1. It may say something along the lines of 'Evening' or 'Morning', indicating the moment that this note was written. The rest of the address panel cannot at present be viewed due to how the notes have been pasted together.

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(3)

Correspondence Details

Sender: Charlotte Margaret Digby (née Gunning)

Place sent: unknown

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: unknown

Date sent: 17 March 1785

Letter Description

Summary: In this note, dated 17 March 1785, Gunning sends Hamilton two tickets for the 'Eidouranion' [a kind of transparent orrery, or magic lantern, used in astronomical lectures] at the Little Theatre, Haymarket, as she is unable to attend.
    Original reference No. 3.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 77 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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