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HAM/1/15/2/20(1)

Note from Mary Hamilton to Charlotte Margaret Gunning

Diplomatic Text


                                                         17
                                                         15 Sept. Sunday 1781
                                                         Babel
      ------------Dearest friend -- No post went out last
night & therefore I could not vindicate my seeming
neglect -- indeed my love I wrote on friday as I promised
at Leuctra & gave the letter to Chs: Greville -- he I
make no doubt forgot to send it -- if he has not
yet done so -- pray send to his house in Portman
Square[1] -- I must not delay sending this to ye. post -- I will
write to night for Tomorrow I return Bells letter
will talk of it bye & bye when I write adieu[2]



[Sep]tember[3]

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Notes


 1. A garden square in Mayfair, central London.
 2. The remainder of the note has been cut off and is missing.
 3. The back of the note is visible at the bottom of p.3 of HAM/1/15/2/20.

Normalised Text


                                                        
                                                         15 September Sunday 1781
                                                         Babel
      ------------Dearest friend -- No post went out last
night & therefore I could not vindicate my seeming
neglect -- indeed my love I wrote on friday as I promised
at Leuctra & gave the letter to Charles Greville -- he I
make no doubt forgot to send it -- if he has not
yet done so -- pray send to his house in Portman
Square -- I must not delay sending this to the post -- I will
write to night for Tomorrow I return Bells letter
will talk of it when I write adieu



September

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 1. A garden square in Mayfair, central London.
 2. The remainder of the note has been cut off and is missing.
 3. The back of the note is visible at the bottom of p.3 of HAM/1/15/2/20.

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/1/15/2/20(1)

Correspondence Details

Sender: Mary Hamilton

Place sent: unknown

Addressee: Charlotte Margaret Digby (née Gunning)

Place received: unknown

Date sent: 15 September 1781

Letter Description

Summary: In this note, dated 15 September 1781, Hamilton writes that her note was too late for the post and she had given it to Charles Greville, who may have forgotten to post it for her.
    Original reference No. 17.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 94 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: Tino Oudesluijs, editorial team (completed 14 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

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