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HAM/1/15/1/26(3)

Note from Charlotte Margaret Gunning to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text


[1]

11 April
1788

My dear Friend! -- I was so distracted when I
returned home last night, that I had not recollection
sufficient to ask whether you had been here -- this
moment I see your name & upon inquiry find
that my Servants gave you no account of me or
of the misfortunes in Ld Carlisles family -- their
Daughter died yesterday morning, I went to them
immediatly and remained till they set out for
the Country in the Evening -- I go down to them  ------ 
& shall return on Wednesday -- I have had a very
bad night but am rather better to day -- I am going
out to give 20000 orders about mourning &c for Ly C.
if I can call on you I will -- thank God your little
darling is quite recovered -- God preserve her to you
& bleʃs you -- I shall see you in comfort on my return
                                                         adieu -- adieu


[2]

[3]

To
Mrs Dickenson

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Notes


 1. The bottom of the first page of HAM/1/15/1/26(1) can be seen at the top of this page.
 2. The bottom of HAM/1/15/1/26(2) can be seen at the top of this page.
 3. Remains of a seal, in red wax, on the left- and right-hand side of this page.

Normalised Text




My dear Friend! -- I was so distracted when I
returned home last night, that I had not recollection
sufficient to ask whether you had been here -- this
moment I see your name & upon inquiry find
that my Servants gave you no account of me or
of the misfortunes in Lord Carlisles family -- their
Daughter died yesterday morning, I went to them
immediately and remained till they set out for
the Country in the Evening -- I go down to them  ------ 
& shall return on Wednesday -- I have had a very
bad night but am rather better to day -- I am going
out to give 20000 orders about mourning &c for Lady Carlisle
if I can call on you I will -- thank God your little
darling is quite recovered -- God preserve her to you
& bless you -- I shall see you in comfort on my return
                                                         adieu -- adieu






To
Mrs Dickenson

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 1. The bottom of the first page of HAM/1/15/1/26(1) can be seen at the top of this page.
 2. The bottom of HAM/1/15/1/26(2) can be seen at the top of this page.
 3. Remains of a seal, in red wax, on the left- and right-hand side of this page.

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/1/15/1/26(3)

Correspondence Details

Sender: Charlotte Margaret Digby (née Gunning)

Place sent: unknown (certainty: medium)

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: unknown (certainty: medium)

Date sent: 11 April 1788

Letter Description

Summary: This note, dated 11 April 1788, relates to the death of Lady Carlisle's daughter.
    Original reference No. 27.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 150 words

Transliteration Information

Editorial declaration: First edited in the project 'Image to Text' (David Denison & Nuria Yáñez-Bouza, 2013-2019), now incorporated 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: XML version: Research Assistant funding in 2014/15 and 2015/16 provided by the Department of Linguistics and English Language, University of Manchester.

Research assistant: Isabella Formisano, former MA student, University of Manchester

Research assistant: Carla Seabra-Dacosta, MA student, University of Vigo

Transliterator: Rhia Abukhalil, undergraduate student, University of Manchester (submitted May 2016)

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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