Diplomatic Text
Stanhope Street
Sunday evening
My dear Miʃs Hamilton,
Mrs Carter & I
very much intended ourselves the pleasure
of breakfasting with you to: morrow
morning; but as we are nieeither of us
very well, we dare not engage ourselves
as we wish. I hope it will not be long
before we meet. can you drink tea here
next Tuesday afternoon, you will meet
Mrs Carter. She dines with Lady C. Finch
my coach will fetch her in the afternoon
and shall call on you at the same time
if you can come. Do pray say you can,
and tell me you are well; both these
informations will give real satisfaction
to Your
Sincerely Affectionate
M. Sharpe.
Febry. 1780
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Normalised Text
Stanhope Street
Sunday evening
My dear Miss Hamilton,
Mrs Carter & I
very much intended ourselves the pleasure
of breakfasting with you to: morrow
morning; but as we are neither of us
very well, we dare not engage ourselves
as we wish. I hope it will not be long
before we meet. can you drink tea here
next Tuesday afternoon, you will meet
Mrs Carter. She dines with Lady Charlotte Finch
my coach will fetch her in the afternoon
and shall call on you at the same time
if you can come. Do pray say you can,
and tell me you are well; both these
informations will give real satisfaction
to Your
Sincerely Affectionate
Mary Sharpe.
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Metadata
Library References
Repository: John Rylands Research Institute and Library, University of Manchester
Archive: Mary Hamilton Papers
Item title: Letter from Mary Sharpe (later Beauvoir) to Mary Hamilton
Shelfmark: HAM/1/22/17
Correspondence Details
Sender: Mary Beauvoir (née Sharpe, later Douglas)
Place sent: London
Addressee: Mary Hamilton
Place received: to be determined
Date sent: February 1780
Letter Description
Summary: Letter from Mary Sharpe to Mary Hamilton. Sharpe and Mrs Carter are unable to breakfast with Hamilton the following day due to their poor health. Sharpe invites Hamilton to tea the day after.
Dated at Stanhope Street, [London].
Length: 1 sheet, 116 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
