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HAM/1/18/180

Letter from Mary Hamilton to David Murray, Lord Stormont

Diplomatic Text


      to Lord Stormont from M D. 1790

My dear Lord!

      I have just seen a paragraph
in the papers wch. has much affected me,
because it has the appearance of being
true -- the sudden death of the Ducheʃs
of Atholl.[1] As I apprehend this event
will severely afflict Lady Stormont
I take ye. liberty of requesting a
few lines frm. your Lordship a few lines to
inform me how her health is able
to sustain such a shock, & to beg
you will convey my sincere con-
dolence. I am My Dr. Lord
      every most Affly- Yours
                             M: Dickenson
Taxal
Decbr. 9th. 1790[2]


To Lord Stormont

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Notes


 1. Jane Cathcart had died 4 days before Mary Hamilton wrote this letter.
 2. This dateline appears to the left of the signature.

Normalised Text


     

My dear Lord!

      I have just seen a paragraph
in the papers which has much affected me,
because it has the appearance of being
true -- the sudden death of the Duchess
of Atholl. As I apprehend this event
will severely afflict Lady Stormont
I take the liberty of requesting
from your Lordship a few lines to
inform me how her health is able
to sustain such a shock, & to beg
you will convey my sincere condolence
 I am My Dear Lord
      ever most Affectionately Yours
                             Mary Dickenson
Taxal
December 9th. 1790


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 1. Jane Cathcart had died 4 days before Mary Hamilton wrote this letter.
 2. This dateline appears to the left of the signature.

Metadata

Library References

Repository: John Rylands Research Institute and Library, University of Manchester

Archive: Mary Hamilton Papers

Item title: Letter from Mary Hamilton to David Murray, Lord Stormont

Shelfmark: HAM/1/18/180

Correspondence Details

Sender: Mary Hamilton

Place sent: Taxal, near Chapel-en-le-Frith

Addressee: David Murray, 2nd Earl of Mansfield

Place received: unknown

Date sent: 9 December 1790

Letter Description

Summary: Letter from Mary Hamilton to Lord Stormont, concerning the death of the Duchess of Atholl [Lady Stormont’s sister] which she has read of in the newspaper.
    Dated at Taxal [Derbyshire].
   

Length: 1 sheet, 92 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: Tino Oudesluijs, editorial team (completed 16 April 2021)

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: 23 December 2021

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