Diplomatic Text
29th. May 1781
My Dear Love -- at ½ past 9 oClock this Eveg. I
sent to let Yo. know I could come & sit with you
till You went to Bed -- but none of yor. people
were at home -- I feel quite comforted about
Dear Bell for I sent twice this afternoon &
both times Sr R. sent me word she was much
better. -- I hope too my Dearest that your head
ach went off otherwise I do not think Yo. wd.
have been from home -- I wish to see You in
the Morng. before I go to ye. Q:H: I cannot so
easily gone to you as I must dreʃs in the Morng
for the whole day -- I dine wth. Mr- Glover & it
is my Night in waiting -- God Bleʃs You, Good Night
My Dear Dear friend.
Miranda
[1]
Honble. Miʃs Gunning
29th May 1781[2]
red text is normalised and/or unformatted in other panel)
Normalised Text
29th. May 1781
My Dear Love -- at ½ past 9 o'clock this Evening I
sent to let You know I could come & sit with you
till You went to Bed -- but none of your people
were at home -- I feel quite comforted about
Dear Bell for I sent twice this afternoon &
both times Sir Robert sent me word she was much
better. -- I hope too my Dearest that your head
ache went off otherwise I do not think You would
have been from home -- I wish to see You in
the Morning before I go to the Queen's House I cannot so
easily go to you as I must dress in the Morning
for the whole day -- I dine with Mr- Glover & it
is my Night in waiting -- God Bless You, Good Night
My Dear Dear friend.
Miranda
Honourable Miss Gunning
29th May 1781
quotations, spellings, uncorrected forms, split words, abbreviations, formatting)
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/1/15/2/14(2)
Correspondence Details
Sender: Mary Hamilton
Place sent: unknown
Addressee: Charlotte Margaret Digby (née Gunning)
Place received: unknown
Date sent: 29 May 1781
Letter Description
Summary: This note is dated 29 May 1781 and is concerned with Gunning's sister 'Bell'.
Original reference No. 12.
Length: 1 sheet, 147 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 7 October 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