Diplomatic Text
Bennet Street
Bath
Novr 21.. 1780
I have not been able my dear
Miʃs Hamilton to write till now, as I have
had a violent cold ever since I came here, till
yesterday, when I began the waters. I have
nothing to say of myself, but that I am now
much the same as you saw me in London.
when I have drank the waters long enough
to hope any benefit from them, I will inform
you how they agree, as I know you so
kindly interest yourself in my wellfare.
Our dear Mrs Carter is tormented as usual
with her tiresome head ake. She drinks
the waters from which at present she
finds no bad effect. It is hoped they may
may be of service to her. She desires her
kind love to you. I believe this place
is not very full at present but I do not
know much of the matter, as I have only
been to take the water & back again.
In a little time you shall have another
letter from Your
Sincerely Affect
M. Sharpe.
Dr & Mrs Pennington
present compliments
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Normalised Text
Bennet Street
Bath
November 21.. 1780
I have not been able my dear
Miss Hamilton to write till now, as I have
had a violent cold ever since I came here, till
yesterday, when I began the waters. I have
nothing to say of myself, but that I am now
much the same as you saw me in London.
when I have drunk the waters long enough
to hope any benefit from them, I will inform
you how they agree, as I know you so
kindly interest yourself in my welfare.
Our dear Mrs Carter is tormented as usual
with her tiresome head ache. She drinks
the waters from which at present she
finds no bad effect. It is hoped they
may be of service to her. She desires her
kind love to you. I believe this place
is not very full at present but I do not
know much of the matter, as I have only
been to take the water & back again.
In a little time you shall have another
letter from Your
Sincerely Affectionate
Mary Sharpe.
Dr & Mrs Pennington
present compliments
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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/1/22/30
Correspondence Details
Sender: Mary Beauvoir (née Sharpe, later Douglas)
Place sent: Bath
Addressee: Mary Hamilton
Place received: to be determined
Date sent: 21 November 1780
Letter Description
Summary: Letter from Mary Sharpe to Mary Hamilton. The letter is concerned with Sharpe's health and with her attempts at a cure at a water spa.
Dated at Bennet Street.
Length: 1 sheet, 186 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
