HAM/1/16/46
Note from Lady Frances Harpur (née Greville) to Mary Hamilton
Diplomatic Text
As I know you Wish to see Caroline
I send the Carriage for you, & Hope you will
like as well, to spend the Morning, Here; am Sorry I
cannot ask you to Dine, but you know It Is not
in my Power; but I beg you will bring Louisa
& your Maid; & they can Dine w. Caroline,
& you May Stay till /3/ o'clock; or later; & it
will be better; than Making the Servants &
Horses wait so long at Richmond;[1] -- I do not
ask Mr. D. as Sr. Harry May be at Home,
I never can Answer for him, but We Shall
not be in His Way -- dont think of your Dreʃs,
as you will not See any Company, ever
Yours Most Affecly.
Frances Harpur
Ly Frances Harpur
August 26th.. 1788
frm. Putney Park
red text is normalised and/or unformatted in other panel)
Notes
1. A letter from Francis Napier dated 28 August 1788 is addressed to Hamilton ‘at John Jackson Esqr- | Richmond’.
Normalised Text
As I know you Wish to see Caroline
I send the Carriage for you, & Hope you will
like as well, to spend the Morning, Here; am Sorry I
cannot ask you to Dine, but you know It Is not
in my Power; but I beg you will bring Louisa
& your Maid; & they can Dine with Caroline,
& you May Stay till /3/ o'clock; or later; & it
will be better; than Making the Servants &
Horses wait so long at Richmond; -- I do not
ask Mr. Dickenson as Sir Harry May be at Home,
I never can Answer for him, but We Shall
not be in His Way -- don't think of your Dress,
as you will not See any Company, ever
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/1/16/46
Correspondence Details
Sender: Frances Elizabeth Harpur (née Greville)
Place sent: West Putney
Addressee: Mary Hamilton
Place received: Richmond (certainty: medium)
Date sent: 26 August 1788
Letter Description
Summary: Note from Lady Frances Harpur to Mary Hamilton. She asks Hamilton to visit
her that morning and if possible to bring Louisa and her maid so they can
dine with 'Caroline'.
Dated at Putney Park.
Length: 1 sheet, 129 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: Therese Rita Kostet, MA student, Uppsala University (submitted 12 July 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