HAM/1/18/104
Note from David Murray, 2nd Earl of Mansfield, to Mary Hamilton
Diplomatic Text
W. Hill Tuesday Night ocbr 12
84
Dear Madam
I cannot sufficiently thank you for the
trouble you have taken as to the strange words
which you know Satyrists have a right to
use. I here send you an absolution in full and
take the whole Blame upon myself. I am
exceedingly obliged to the Ducheʃs for permitting you
to make me so agreeable a Present I hope
to repeat my Thanks to you both on Saturday
next, unleʃs something should happen to force
Ld Mansfield to alter His Plan;[1] He proposes
writing to the Ducheʃs. I am glad to hear that
there will probably be no addition to the
present society of Bullstrode as it would
be very difficult to make any addition
that
that would not spoil it. Lady Stormont Vous
embrace, etand desires her beʃt Compts to the
Ladies to whom I beg my Respects and
ever am with the sincerest attachment
Dear Madam
Your moʃt faithful Humble Servt
Stormont
My Daughter went this Morning to Kenwood with
Lord Mansfield but will return to W. Hill
to keep Ly S. company during my absence
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Normalised Text
Wandsworth Hill Tuesday Night october 12
1784
Dear Madam
I cannot sufficiently thank you for the
trouble you have taken as to the strange words
which you know Satirists have a right to
use. I here send you an absolution in full and
take the whole Blame upon myself. I am
exceedingly obliged to the Duchess for permitting you
to make me so agreeable a Present I hope
to repeat my Thanks to you both on Saturday
next, unless something should happen to force
Lord Mansfield to alter His Plan; He proposes
writing to the Duchess. I am glad to hear that
there will probably be no addition to the
present society of Bullstrode as it would
be very difficult to make any addition
that would not spoil it. Lady Stormont Vous
embrace, and desires her best Compliments to the
Ladies to whom I beg my Respects and
ever am with the sincerest attachment
Dear Madam
Your most faithful Humble Servant
Stormont
My Daughter went this Morning to Kenwood with
Lord Mansfield but will return to Wandsworth Hill
to keep Lady Stormont company during my absence
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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 David Murray, 2nd Earl of Mansfield, to Mary Hamilton
Shelfmark: HAM/1/18/104
Correspondence Details
Sender: David Murray, 2nd Earl of Mansfield
Place sent: Wandsworth
Addressee: Mary Hamilton
Place received: Bulstrode, near Gerrards Cross (certainty: high)
Date sent: 12 October 1784
Letter Description
Summary: Note from Lord Stormont [later 2nd Earl of Mansfield] to Mary Hamilton, thanking her and the Duchess [of Portland] for permitting Hamilton to make him so 'agreeable a present'.
Length: 1 sheet, 186 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
Copyright: Transcriptions, notes and TEI/XML © the editors
Revision date: 25 August 2026
