Unlocking the Mary Hamilton papers

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HAM/1/15/1/27(2)

Note from Charlotte Margaret Gunning to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text


My dear, pray let me know particularly how
you do to day, whether you took James's Powders[1]
& with what effect -- are you still confined? if you
keep House to day I shall perhaps call to see how
you are early in the Evening -- God bleʃs you adi[eu]

May -- 1788           Sunday morning


[2]
Mrs Dickenson

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Notes


 1. Dr James's Fever Powder, a medicine patented by the English physician Robert James in 1746. It claimed to cure fevers and various other maladies.
 2. Remains of a seal, in red wax.

Normalised Text


My dear, pray let me know particularly how
you do to day, whether you took James's Powders
& with what effect -- are you still confined? if you
keep House to day I shall perhaps call to see how
you are early in the Evening -- God bless you adieu

          Sunday morning



Mrs Dickenson

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 1. Dr James's Fever Powder, a medicine patented by the English physician Robert James in 1746. It claimed to cure fevers and various other maladies.
 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(2)

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 ask how Hamilton is and whether she may visit her that evening.
    Original reference No. 26.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 52 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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