Diplomatic Text
Mill Hill
July 1: 1780
As you seem really uneasy my
dear at my silence, I will write tho' I have
scarce time to say three words, but I will
not delay another post. Indeed my dear I writ
you a long letter a fortnight ago.[1] I sent it to
Kew, imagining if you was gone to East
Bourn, it wou'd be sent to you. I fear, it
has not. I therein desired you to tell me
whether there was any Inn there, & to inform
me of the road. As to the time of our
coming, I know it can not be till the
middle of August. If you are gone before then
I st - ill hope we shall meet some how before
before winter. The post will call here in
a moment, so I can only say I left Mrs Carter
well & am
Most Affectly Yours
M. Sharpe
The shortneʃs of this
is owing to neceʃsity not inclination.
July 1st. 1780
Miʃs S[2]
red text is normalised and/or unformatted in other panel)
Notes
1. See HAM/1/22/25.
2. The annotation is written upside down in the bottom right corner of the page.
Normalised Text
Mill Hill
July 1: 1780
As you seem really uneasy my
dear at my silence, I will write though I have
scarce time to say three words, but I will
not delay another post. Indeed my dear I wrote
you a long letter a fortnight ago. I sent it to
Kew, imagining if you was gone to East
Bourn, it would be sent to you. I fear, it
has not. I therein desired you to tell me
whether there was any Inn there, & to inform
me of the road. As to the time of our
coming, I know it can not be till the
middle of August. If you are gone before then
I still hope we shall meet some how
before winter. The post will call here in
a moment, so I can only say I left Mrs Carter
well & am
Most Affectionately Yours
Mary Sharpe
The shortness of this
is owing to necessity not inclination.
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: Letter from Mary Sharpe (later Beauvoir) to Mary Hamilton
Shelfmark: HAM/1/22/26
Correspondence Details
Sender: Mary Beauvoir (née Sharpe, later Douglas)
Place sent: Mill Hill
Addressee: Mary Hamilton
Place received: to be determined
Date sent: 1 July 1780
Letter Description
Summary: Letter from Mary Sharpe to Mary Hamilton. Sharpe writes a short letter to Hamilton, replacing the undelivered HAM/1/22/25, informing her that she intends to visit Eastbourne in the middle of August.
Dated at Mill Hill.
Length: 1 sheet, 159 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
