Diplomatic Text
[1]
Dr. Sir -- I ought yesterday to have informed you of
ye safe arrival of your ------ present, & also to aʃsure
you that Louisa & myself were not only much gratified by
your polite & friendly attention but & the useful & elegant
Materials you have so obliging furnished us with
L: admires Mrs. Williamson's skill & ingenuity -- extremely. I believe
I have some acquaintance wt. herMrs W & rejoice she has gained
such friends as Mrs. Hill & yourself & Mrs. Hill ------ Mr. D: L &[2]
myself unite in best regards to You & Mrs. Hill & Yourself
I remain Dr. Sir
Yours Your Much Obliged &
Sincere Servt.
M D:[3]
red text is normalised and/or unformatted in other panel)
Notes
1. The draft is written around the address on p.3 of a letter from Francis Napier to Hamilton, transcribed as HAM/1/20/209(1).
2. This section appears above the address panel, upside down.
3. This section is situated below the address panel.
Normalised Text
Dear Sir -- I ought yesterday to have informed you of
the safe arrival of your present, & also to assure
you that Louisa & myself were much gratified by
your polite & friendly attention & the useful & elegant
Materials you have so obliging furnished us with
Louisa admires Mrs. Williamson's skill & ingenuity -- extremely. I believe
I have some acquaintance with Mrs Williamson & rejoice she has gained
such friends as Mr. Dickenson Louisa &
myself unite in best regards to You & Mrs. Hill
I remain Dear Sir
Your Much Obliged &
Sincere Servant
Mary Dickenson
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: Draft letter from Mary Hamilton to Mr Hill
Shelfmark: HAM/1/20/209(2)
Correspondence Details
Sender: Mary Hamilton
Place sent: Leighton Buzzard (certainty: medium)
Addressee: [...] Hill
Place received: unknown
Date sent:
not before 3 January 1807
notBefore 3 January 1807 (precision: high)
Letter Description
Summary: Draft letter from Mary Hamilton to a Mr Hill, thanking him for his gift.
The draft is written on blank space around the address panel of an apparently unrelated letter from Francis Napier to Mary Hamilton, transcribed as HAM/1/20/209(1).
Length: 1 sheet, 98 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: Christine Wallis, editorial team (completed 8 February 2022)
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 April 2023