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HAM/1/16/21

Note from Lady Frances Harpur (née Greville) to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text


                                                         Friday -- 16th Janry
                                                         1784

Dear Miʃs Hamilton
      I Have Just Recd. the enclosed from Lady
Stormont; She will be in Town; on Saturday I Believe;
I find she still wishes, me to own Her situation;
as She Has not Informed Lady Mansfield -- so
that I Hope You have not Mentioned It; -- I have
sent some Knotting to Mrs. Delany by Lady
Wallingford, Who will see Her this Evening --
I shall be Happy to wait on You any Day --
next Week; You Will mention excepting
Monday -- & am dear Miʃs Hamilton, Yrs -- FHarpur

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Normalised Text


                                                         Friday --

Dear Miss Hamilton
      I Have Just Received the enclosed from Lady
Stormont; She will be in Town; on Saturday I Believe;
I find she still wishes, me to own Her situation;
as She Has not Informed Lady Mansfield -- so
that I Hope You have not Mentioned It; -- I have
sent some Knotting to Mrs. Delany by Lady
Wallingford, Who will see Her this Evening --
I shall be Happy to wait on You any Day --
next Week; You Will mention excepting
Monday -- & am dear Miss Hamilton, Yours -- Frances Harpur

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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/1/16/21

Correspondence Details

Sender: Frances Elizabeth Harpur (née Greville)

Place sent: unknown

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: unknown

Date sent: 16 January 1784

Letter Description

Summary: Note from Lady Frances Harpur to Mary Hamilton, conveying general news of friends including Lady Stormont and Mrs Delany.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 90 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: Francesca Criscuolo, MA student, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) (submitted 15 August 2022)

Transliterator: Christine Wallis, editorial team (completed 10 November 2022)

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: 2 December 2022

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