Diplomatic Text
8th. Octbr. 1781
Thank you my Love for the Sattin -- I shall
not want any thing else -- I can only write a line
or two -- my Spirits are so agitated that I cannot
attend to any thing just at present -- Yo. will feel
for me when I tell You Dr. Mr. Glovers being very
ill is the occasion of it -- I was at Sunning Hill
Yesterday -- his complaint is ye Gout in his Stomach
wch. at all times is a most alarming disorder but
at his Years (for he just turn'd seventy) then
every reason to fear the worst -- I am calld to
Dinner Adieu I send a letter from Ldy. M H
return it -- Ad[ieu] ------------------------------------------------------------[1]
October 8th
1781[2]
red text is normalised and/or unformatted in other panel)
Notes
1. The remainder of this note has been cut and is missing.
2. The back of this note is partially visible at the bottom right of p.2 of HAM/1/15/2/20.
Normalised Text
8th. October 1781
Thank you my Love for the Satin -- I shall
not want any thing else -- I can only write a line
or two -- my Spirits are so agitated that I cannot
attend to any thing just at present -- You will feel
for me when I tell You Dear Mr. Glovers being very
ill is the occasion of it -- I was at Sunning Hill
Yesterday -- his complaint is the Gout in his Stomach
which at all times is a most alarming disorder but
at his Years (for he just turned seventy) then
every reason to fear the worst -- I am called to
Dinner Adieu I send a letter from Lady Mary Hume
return it -- Adieu ------------------------------------------------------------
October 8th
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/1/15/2/20(2)
Correspondence Details
Sender: Mary Hamilton
Place sent: unknown
Addressee: Charlotte Margaret Digby (née Gunning)
Place received: unknown
Date sent: 8 October 1781
Letter Description
Summary: This note is dated 8 October 1781 and in it Hamilton writes of her agitation of spirits and of her
concern for Mr Glover (see HAM/1/13) who is very ill. The note details Glover's illness.
Original reference No. 17.
Length: 1 sheet, 119 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
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Revision date: 28 April 2023