Diplomatic Text
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I did not get your little note till I came from
Accapulco. -- jugdge judge how miserable I shall feel
to go away without seeing You -- I go on Tuesday
wth. ye. 3 Eldest Pʃs's., ye: others come ye. day after
with Elise. the enclosed Note you ought to have
had at 4 o'Clock yesterday, but Wm. kept it in his Pocket &
entirely forgot to carry it -- My God wt. wd. I not give
to come & nurse You -- I must see You before I go
Adieu for ye. present
Your Miranda
let me know how your
head does & Your Cough[1]
3d June 1781
Osyris & Rhea ask'd after you last Night -- I told ym. of Yor distreʃs's
Rhea said she shd. send to yo. about yor. not coming ye. B. D:[2] in a very
kind manner.
[3]
3d June
17[81][4]
red text is normalised and/or unformatted in other panel)
Notes
1. This postscript appears to the left of the signature.
2. King George's birthday (4 June) was celebrated at court every year.
3. There is currently no image of the back of this note due to how HAM/1/15/2/15(1) and HAM/1/15/2/15(3) have been pasted onto the sheet. It can however be partially seen both in HAM/1/15/2/15 p.1 and HAM/1/15/2/15 p.3.
4. The date on the back of this note is written vertically in the left-hand margin.
Normalised Text
I did not get your little note till I came from
Accapulco. -- judge how miserable I shall feel
to go away without seeing You -- I go on Tuesday
with the 3 Eldest Princess's, the others come the day after
with Elise. the enclosed Note you ought to have
had at 4 o'Clock yesterday, but William kept it in his Pocket &
entirely forgot to carry it -- My God what would I not give
to come & nurse You -- I must see You before I go
Adieu for the present
Your Miranda
let me know how your
head does & Your Cough
3d June 1781
Osyris & Rhea asked after you last Night -- I told them of Your distress's
Rhea said she should send to you about your not coming the Birth Day in a very
kind manner.
3d June
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/1/15/2/15(2)
Correspondence Details
Sender: Mary Hamilton
Place sent: unknown
Addressee: Charlotte Margaret Digby (née Gunning)
Place received: unknown
Date sent: 3 June 1781
Letter Description
Summary: This note is dated 3 June 1781. Hamilton is upset that she will
not have the opportunity of seeing Gunning before she leaves.
Original reference No. 13.
Length: 1 sheet, 140 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
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Revision date: 28 April 2023