HAM/1/18/33
Note from David Murray, 2nd Earl of Mansfield, to Mary Hamilton
Diplomatic Text
Miʃs Hamilton will I am sure be happy
to hear that Lady Stormont is safely deliverd
of a Son. & that She is as well as can be
expected and the child perfectly so. She felt
herself a good deal out of order laʃt Night,
We sent for Dr Ford who arrived an Hour or
two before She was taken ill: She was not
seriously so till about three o' clock this
Morning and before five tout etait dit.[1] No
body can judge better of my Joy than
Miʃs Hamilton who will so sincerely share
it.
Wandsworth Hill auguʃt 22d 1781
Lord Stormont
red text is normalised and/or unformatted in other panel)
Notes
1. The French tout était dit, literally ‘everything had been said’, has the idiomatic sense ‘it was all over’.
Normalised Text
Miss Hamilton will I am sure be happy
to hear that Lady Stormont is safely delivered
of a Son. & that She is as well as can be
expected and the child perfectly so. She felt
herself a good deal out of order last Night,
We sent for Dr Ford who arrived an Hour or
two before She was taken ill: She was not
seriously so till about three o'clock this
Morning and before five tout etait dit. No
body can judge better of my Joy than
Miss Hamilton who will so sincerely share
it.
Wandsworth Hill august 22d 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 David Murray, 2nd Earl of Mansfield, to Mary Hamilton
Shelfmark: HAM/1/18/33
Correspondence Details
Sender: David Murray, 2nd Earl of Mansfield
Place sent: Wandsworth
Addressee: Mary Hamilton
Place received: to be determined
Date sent: 22 August 1781
Letter Description
Summary: Note from David Murray, Lord Stormont [later 2nd Earl of Mansfield], to Mary Hamilton, informing her of the birth of Lady Stormont’s son.
Dated at Wandsworth Hill.
Length: 1 sheet, 100 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 first created without transcription as part of project 'Unlocking the Mary Hamilton Papers', funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council under grant AH/S007121/1. Transcription added after the funded period under the supervision of David Denison and Nuria Yáñez-Bouza.
Transliterator: Irene Boubeta-Rodríguez, undergraduate student, University of Vigo (Plain text transliteration submitted 21 April 2025)
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: 7 November 2025
