HAM/1/22/22

Note from Mary Sharpe (later Beauvoir) to Mary Hamilton

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Diplomatic Text

                             [St]anhope Street
                                  Friday. 7^th April
                                                         1780

[M]y dear Miʃs Hamilton,

      As I fear if
our engagement with M^r Smelt, is not
settled before Tuesday, we may find it difficult
to bring it to bear, I write to know whether Saturday
sen- night or Tuesday sen- night will suit
you, as you must be of the party so
don't say me nay. When you come home
put on a bit of paper the day you
chuse & the place of M^r Smelts abode.
that is all the answer required by
                             Y^r ever Affec^t
                                  M. Sharpe
Pray send me an
answer as soon as you can

[Miʃs Ha]milton^[1]

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Notes

1. The direction is written diagonally on the right of the sheet.

Normalised Text

                             Stanhope Street
                                  Friday. 7th April
                                                         1780

My dear Miss Hamilton,

      As I fear if
our engagement with Mr Smelt, is not
settled before Tuesday, we may find it difficult
to bring it to bear, I write to know whether Saturday
sen- night or Tuesday sen- night will suit
you, as you must be of the party so
don't say me nay. When you come home
put on a bit of paper the day you
choose & the place of Mr Smelts abode.
that is all the answer required by
                             Your ever Affectionate
                                  Mary Sharpe
Pray send me an
answer as soon as you can

Miss Hamilton

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Notes

1. The direction is written diagonally on the right of the sheet.

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/1/22/22

Correspondence Details

Sender: Mary Beauvoir (née Sharpe, later Douglas)

Place sent: London

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: to be determined

Date sent: 7 April 1780

Letter Description

Summary: Note from Mary Sharpe to Mary Hamilton, to arrange a date for a visit to Mr Smelt.
Dated at Stanhope Street, [London].

Length: 1 sheet, 106 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, M^rs. or M^rs may occur, but M.^rs or M^r.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

Revision date: 7 April 2026

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