Diplomatic Text
On recollection after I came home, I find it
will not be in my power to breakfast with you next
Saturday. At present it is impoʃsible to fix any day
with Mrs Carter, as she is very far from well: tho' I
hope a day or two will set all right. As soon as
she is better, I will write, or call on you, to settle our
next meetting. Adieu my dear,
ever Yrs. Affectly
M. Sharpe.
2d. March 1781[1]
Miʃs Hamilton
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Normalised Text
On recollection after I came home, I find it
will not be in my power to breakfast with you next
Saturday. At present it is impossible to fix any day
with Mrs Carter, as she is very far from well: though I
hope a day or two will set all right. As soon as
she is better, I will write, or call on you, to settle our
next meeting. Adieu my dear,
ever Yours Affectionately
Mary Sharpe.
Miss Hamilton
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Notes
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/1/22/32
Correspondence Details
Sender: Mary Beauvoir (née Sharpe, later Douglas)
Place sent: to be determined
Addressee: Mary Hamilton
Place received: to be determined
Date sent: 2 March 1781
Letter Description
Summary: Note from Mary Sharpe to Mary Hamilton. Sharpe writes to cancel a breakfast with Hamilton and will write or call on her to set a new meeting once Mrs Carter is better.
Length: 1 sheet, 79 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
