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HAM/1/22/4

Note from Mary Sharpe (later Beauvoir) to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text


      My dear Miʃs Hamilton
                             I have the
happineʃs to tell you that the physician
thinks my dear friend rather better. so
do Mrs. Pennington & I, who having never
left her except to breakfast & dine,
must be some judges how she goes on.
      I trust she will be better to- morrow
in the course of the day you shall
hear from Yr Affect
                             M: Sharpe
Clarges Street
Monday night
15th: March 1779[1]



                                                         Miʃs Hamilton

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Notes


 1. The dateline appears to the left of the signature.

Normalised Text


      My dear Miss Hamilton
                             I have the
happiness to tell you that the physician
thinks my dear friend rather better. so
do Mrs. Pennington & I, who having never
left her except to breakfast & dine,
must be some judges how she goes on.
      I trust she will be better to- morrow
in the course of the day you shall
hear from Your Affectionate
                             Mary Sharpe
Clarges Street
Monday night




                                                         Miss Hamilton

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 1. The 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: Note from Mary Sharpe (later Beauvoir) to Mary Hamilton

Shelfmark: HAM/1/22/4

Correspondence Details

Sender: Mary Beauvoir (née Sharpe, later Douglas)

Place sent: London

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: to be determined

Date sent: 15 March 1779

Letter Description

Summary: Note from Mary Sharpe to Mary Hamilton. Sharpe writes that the physician thinks her friend is in better health (see HAM/1/22/2).
   

Length: 1 sheet, 72 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: 7 April 2026

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