Diplomatic Text
21st. May 1780 Sunday
I have but time to tell you my
Dear love yt. I was made happy
by recg your little note -- pray
explain -- you have rais'd my
curiosity to ye. highest pitch -- &
you are not well & low -- surely
my ------ Friend could not in those
few hours of Yesterday find
cause to injure both her health
& repose.
I told ye. Q last night you were
going to T—— she said in ye. kindest
manner imaginable -- I hope
the drawing Room will not last
long to make it late before
Miʃs G—— sets out -- Adieu for
to day I shall begin from yesterday
-- a kind of journal to you[1] -- I expect
ye. same from you -- I love you
too sincerely not to be interested
in ye. most trifling occurrence
Adieu ------------------------
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Normalised Text
21st. May 1780 Sunday
I have but time to tell you my
Dear love that I was made happy
by receiving your little note -- pray
explain -- you have raised my
curiosity to the highest pitch -- &
you are not well & low -- surely
my Friend could not in those
few hours of Yesterday find
cause to injure both her health
& repose.
I told the Queen last night you were
going to Town she said in the kindest
manner imaginable -- I hope
the drawing Room will not last
long to make it late before
Miss Gunning sets out -- Adieu for
to day I shall begin from yesterday
-- a kind of journal to you -- I expect
the same from you -- I love you
too sincerely not to be interested
in the most trifling occurrence
Adieu ------------------------
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Notes
Metadata
Library References
Repository: John Rylands Research Institute and Library, University of Manchester
Archive: Mary Hamilton Papers
Item title: Note from Mary Hamilton to Charlotte Margaret Gunning
Shelfmark: HAM/1/15/2/4(3)
Correspondence Details
Sender: Mary Hamilton
Place sent: unknown
Addressee: Charlotte Margaret Digby (née Gunning)
Place received: unknown
Date sent: 21 May 1780
Letter Description
Summary: In this note (21 May 1780) Hamilton writes that Gunning's note has
raised her curiosity. She will write a type of journal for Gunning and she
expects the same from Gunning.
Original reference No. 4.
Length: 1 sheet, 134 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: Christine Wallis, editorial team (completed 6 October 2020)
Cataloguer: Lisa Crawley, Archivist, The John Rylands Library
Cataloguer: John Hodgson, Head of Special Collections, John Rylands Research Institute and Library
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Revision date: 28 April 2023