HAM/1/18/175
Letter from David Murray, 2nd Earl of Mansfield, to Mary Hamilton
Diplomatic Text
Dear Madam
It gives me great Pleasure to be able to
inform you that early this Morning Lady
Stormont was safely deliverd of a fine
Girl. Her Labour was short and by no
means severe, and she is as well as can
poʃsibly be expected. I beg to be
particularly rememberd to Mr Dickinson
I know how sincerely you will both
share my Joy.
I am with the sincereʃt attachment
Dear Madam,
your moʃt faithful Hble Servt
Stormont
Portland Place Decr. 14. 89[1]
red text is normalised and/or unformatted in other panel)
Normalised Text
Dear Madam
It gives me great Pleasure to be able to
inform you that early this Morning Lady
Stormont was safely delivered of a fine
Girl. Her Labour was short and by no
means severe, and she is as well as can
possibly be expected. I beg to be
particularly remembered to Mr Dickinson
I know how sincerely you will both
share my Joy.
I am with the sincerest attachment
Dear Madam,
your most faithful Humble Servant
Stormont
Portland Place December 14. 1789
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: Letter from David Murray, 2nd Earl of Mansfield, to Mary Hamilton
Shelfmark: HAM/1/18/175
Correspondence Details
Sender: David Murray, 2nd Earl of Mansfield
Place sent: London
Addressee: Mary Hamilton
Place received: Taxal, near Chapel-en-le-Frith (certainty: low)
Date sent: 14 December 1789
Letter Description
Summary: Letter from Lord Stormont [later 2nd Earl of Mansfield] to Mary Hamilton, informing Hamilton of the birth of a daughter.
Dated at Portland Place.
Length: 1 sheet, 83 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: 7 November 2025
