Diplomatic Text
Clarges Street Tuesday
night.
Many thanks my dear Miʃs Hamilton
for yr kind inquiry after me this morning.
My dear friend continues mending. The
medicines have had the desired effect
& we are in very good spirits about her,
tho' she mends very slowly.. You will
easily gueʃs I can not leave her with
any comfort, so I must postpone the
pleasure of seeing you on Thursday.
As soon as she is tolerable with yr
leave I will come & take a comfortable
breakfast with you.
Yr Sincerely Affect
M. Sharpe.
My dear friend
desires her love to
you.[1]
16th. March 1779
Miʃs Hamilton[2]
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Normalised Text
Clarges Street Tuesday
night.
Many thanks my dear Miss Hamilton
for your kind inquiry after me this morning.
My dear friend continues mending. The
medicines have had the desired effect
& we are in very good spirits about her,
though she mends very slowly.. You will
easily guess I can not leave her with
any comfort, so I must postpone the
pleasure of seeing you on Thursday.
As soon as she is tolerable with your
leave I will come & take a comfortable
breakfast with you.
Your Sincerely Affectionate
Mary Sharpe.
My dear friend
desires her love to
you.
16th. March 1779
Miss Hamilton
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: Note from Mary Sharpe (later Beauvoir) to Mary Hamilton
Shelfmark: HAM/1/22/5
Correspondence Details
Sender: Mary Beauvoir (née Sharpe, later Douglas)
Place sent: London
Addressee: Mary Hamilton
Place received: to be determined
Date sent: 16 March 1779
Letter Description
Summary: Note from Mary Sharpe to Mary Hamilton. Sharpe again writes on her friend's health and notes that the medicines are working and that her health continues to improve.
Dated at Clarges Street, [London].
Length: 1 sheet, 104 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
