HAM/1/18/176
Letter from David Murray, 2nd Earl of Mansfield, to Mary Hamilton
Diplomatic Text
Portland Place Decr 29. 89
Dear Madam
Lady Stormont and I feel ourselves much
obliged to you and Mr Dickenson for your very
Kind Congratulations. I have great Pleasure in
informing you that Lady Stormont goes on as
I could wish, and was made very happy yesterday
by the arrival of Mr & Mrs Graham and Miʃs
Cathcart all in perfect Health. They join us
in Every Cordial Wish for you & yours.
The Young Lady improves à Vue doeil,[1] and
will, I hope, in Time be a Companion to your
Daughter who announced Her arrival with so
much Joy.
I am Dear Madam with the
sincereʃt attachment
Your moʃt faithful Hble Servt
Stormont
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Normalised Text
Portland Place December 29. 1789
Dear Madam
Lady Stormont and I feel ourselves much
obliged to you and Mr Dickenson for your very
Kind Congratulations. I have great Pleasure in
informing you that Lady Stormont goes on as
I could wish, and was made very happy yesterday
by the arrival of Mr & Mrs Graham and Miss
Cathcart all in perfect Health. They join us
in Every Cordial Wish for you & yours.
The Young Lady improves à Vue doeil, and
will, I hope, in Time be a Companion to your
Daughter who announced Her arrival with so
much Joy.
I am Dear Madam with the
sincerest attachment
Your most faithful Humble Servant
Stormont
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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/1/18/176
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: 29 December 1789
Letter Description
Summary: Letter from Lord Stormont [later 2nd Earl of Mansfield] to Mary Hamilton, thanking her for her letter of congratulation on the birth of his daughter and informing her that Lady Stormont is doing as well as expected.
Dated at Portland Place.
Length: 1 sheet, 114 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
