Single Letter

HAM/1/22/21

Note from Mary Sharpe (later Beauvoir) to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text


      We are very sorry my dear Miʃs
Hamilton, that we dare not go to
you this morning; but I am tired
with being at the ball. last night, & Mrs
Carter with walking into the city
yesterday morning. so that to keep
ourselves well to go to you this evening
we rest quiet at home this morning
      Adieu      Yrs Affectly
                             M. Sharpe
Thursday, 6 April 1780







Miʃs Hamilton[1]

(hover over blue text or annotations for clarification;
red text is normalised and/or unformatted in other panel)


Notes


 1. The direction appears on the page by itself, broken into two fragments written in different directions when unfolded.

Normalised Text


      We are very sorry my dear Miss
Hamilton, that we dare not go to
you this morning; but I am tired
with being at the ball. last night, & Mrs
Carter with walking into the city
yesterday morning. so that to keep
ourselves well to go to you this evening
we rest quiet at home this morning
      Adieu      Yours Affectionately
                             Mary Sharpe
Thursday, 6 April 1780







Miss Hamilton

(consult diplomatic text or XML for annotations, deletions, clarifications, persons,
quotations, spellings, uncorrected forms, split words, abbreviations, formatting)



 1. The direction appears on the page by itself, broken into two fragments written in different directions when unfolded.

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/1/22/21

Correspondence Details

Sender: Mary Beauvoir (née Sharpe, later Douglas)

Place sent: to be determined

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: to be determined

Date sent: 6 April 1780

Letter Description

Summary: Note from Mary Sharpe to Mary Hamilton. Sharpe writes that she will not visit Hamilton that morning as she is 'tired with being at the ball last night'.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 68 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

Document Image (pdf)