Unlocking the Mary Hamilton papers

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HAM/1/15/1/27(1)

Note from Charlotte Margaret Gunning to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text


                                                         26
My dear Friend -- I am under the disagreeable
neceʃsity of diʃsappointing you & myself this Evening
but I have just received an unsollicited Ticket for
the Ladies annual dinner at the Catch Club,[1] which
has been procured for me with great difficulty
so that I cannot refuse it, & fear I shall not be
back in the Evening time enough to come to you
therefore do not stay at home, tho' If they break --
up tolerably early I shall take my chance of find[ing]
you -- adieu my dear Friend affecly: yours C.M.G.
May 1788                          Friday


To
      Mrs Dickenson

[2]

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Notes


 1. The first of the great Georgian clubs to popularize the glee ['a three- or four-voice a cappella song'] was the Noblemen and Gentlemen's Catch Club of London, founded in 1761 (Wikipedia).
 2. Remains of a seal, in red wax.

Normalised Text


                                                        
My dear Friend -- I am under the disagreeable
necessity of disappointing you & myself this Evening
but I have just received an unsolicited Ticket for
the Ladies annual dinner at the Catch Club, which
has been procured for me with great difficulty
so that I cannot refuse it, & fear I shall not be
back in the Evening time enough to come to you
therefore do not stay at home, though If they break --
up tolerably early I shall take my chance of finding
you -- adieu my dear Friend affectionately yours Charlotte Margaret Gunning
               Friday


To
      Mrs Dickenson

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 1. The first of the great Georgian clubs to popularize the glee ['a three- or four-voice a cappella song'] was the Noblemen and Gentlemen's Catch Club of London, founded in 1761 (Wikipedia).
 2. Remains of a seal, in red wax.

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/1/15/1/27(1)

Correspondence Details

Sender: Charlotte Margaret Digby (née Gunning)

Place sent: London (certainty: medium)

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: London (certainty: medium)

Date sent: May 1788

Letter Description

Summary: In this note, Gunning writes to cancel a visit to Hamilton, as she has just received a packet inviting her to the Ladies' annual dinner at the Catch Club, which she is unable to refuse to attend.
    Original reference No. 26.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 98 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

Transliterator: Georgia Wadsworth, 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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