Diplomatic Text
Clarges Street
March 14th 1779 Sunday night
Here am I my dear Miʃs
Hamilton, nursing my beloved
friend, who alas is very ill.
not in danger I trust, & that is
all I can say. After this you
will not wonder I do not much
think of our party to= morrow.
Unleʃs some very unexpected
alteration for the better takes
place, I can not leave her. If
it shou'd, I will be with you between
9 & 10 don't expect me however.
Most probably this will also put
put a stop to our oratrio. But
I hope before they are over my
trouble will be removed &
we may renew our party
Adieu Yrs Affectly
M Sharpe
Miʃs Hamilton[1]
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Clarges Street
Sunday night
Here am I my dear Miss
Hamilton, nursing my beloved
friend, who alas is very ill.
not in danger I trust, & that is
all I can say. After this you
will not wonder I do not much
think of our party to= morrow.
Unless some very unexpected
alteration for the better takes
place, I can not leave her. If
it should, I will be with you between
9 & 10 don't expect me however.
Most probably this will also
put a stop to our oratorio. But
I hope before they are over my
trouble will be removed &
we may renew our party
Adieu Yours Affectionately
Mary Sharpe
Miss Hamilton
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Notes
Metadata
Library References
Repository: John Rylands Research Institute and Library, University of Manchester
Archive: Mary Hamilton Papers
Item title: Note from Mary Sharpe (later Beauvoir) to Mary Hamilton
Shelfmark: HAM/1/22/3
Correspondence Details
Sender: Mary Beauvoir (née Sharpe, later Douglas)
Place sent: London
Addressee: Mary Hamilton
Place received: to be determined
Date sent: 14 March 1779
Letter Description
Summary: Note from Mary Sharpe to Mary Hamilton. Her beloved friend is very ill, and unless her health improves, Sharpe will not be able to keep her rendezvous with Hamilton the following day.
Length: 1 sheet, 115 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: Pete Morris, Artificial Intelligence and Ideas Adoption (AIIA), The University of Manchester Library (Plain text transliteration submitted 22 May 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: 15 June 2026
