HAM/1/16/18
Note from Lady Frances Harpur (née Greville) to Mary Hamilton
Diplomatic Text
[1]
Dear Miʃs Hamilton
If you are disengaged this Evening I
shall be very Happy to have the pleasure
of Your Company -- & will If agreable to you
send the Coach; at any Hour you will appoint;
I will give You, this Evening, the Knotting,
as I shall by that Time, have finished All
the Materials for It, You left wt. Me; If I
shd. not have the pleasure of seeing You
this Eveng Will You be so good, as to send
me some More; thread Worsted, that I may
go on wt. this Work; which I am not in
the least Tired of; I Heard on Saturday from
Lady Stormont; they were All Well; I am dear
Miʃs Hamilton, Yrs. Most Affecly-
Frances Harpur
Tuesday Janry. 6th. 1784.
Lady F Harpur[2]
red text is normalised and/or unformatted in other panel)
Notes
1. The previous letter to this one in the HAM/1/16 set would beHAM/1/16/15, as a result of the reassignment of HAM/1/16/16 and HAM/1/16/17 to William Wake rather than Frances Harpur, where they are sequenced between HAM/1/8/8/10 and HAM/1/8/8/11.
2. This annotation is written vertically in the right-hand margin.
Normalised Text
Dear Miss Hamilton
If you are disengaged this Evening I
shall be very Happy to have the pleasure
of Your Company -- & will If agreeable to you
send the Coach; at any Hour you will appoint;
I will give You, this Evening, the Knotting,
as I shall by that Time, have finished All
the Materials for It, You left with Me; If I
should not have the pleasure of seeing You
this Evening Will You be so good, as to send
me some More; thread Worsted, that I may
go on with this Work; which I am not in
the least Tired of; I Heard on Saturday from
Lady Stormont; they were All Well; I am dear
Miss Hamilton, Yours Most Affectionately
Frances Harpur
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 Lady Frances Harpur (née Greville) to Mary Hamilton
Shelfmark: HAM/1/16/18
Correspondence Details
Sender: Frances Elizabeth Harpur (née Greville)
Place sent: unknown
Addressee: Mary Hamilton
Place received: unknown
Date sent: 6 January 1784
Letter Description
Summary: Note from Lady Frances Harpur to Mary Hamilton, inviting her to visit Harpur.
Length: 1 sheet, 124 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: 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 24 November 2022)
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: 9 June 2023