HAM/1/22/33

Note from Mary Sharpe (later Beauvoir) to Mary Hamilton

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Diplomatic Text

      I was very sorry my dear
to be prevented going to you
last night, and am more so
that I can not at present
breakfast with you. But I am
really so poorly all the first
part of my mornings, that
I dare not venture till I
am a little improved.
      As soon as I am able, it
will be with real pleasure
your invitation will be accepted
by           Y^rs Affec^tly
                             M. Sharpe.

      Stanhope Street
         Friday morning.
           23^d- March 1781

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Normalised Text

      I was very sorry my dear
to be prevented going to you
last night, and am more so
that I can not at present
breakfast with you. But I am
really so poorly all the first
part of my mornings, that
I dare not venture till I
am a little improved.
      As soon as I am able, it
will be with real pleasure
your invitation will be accepted
by           Yours Affectionately
                             Mary Sharpe.

      Stanhope Street
         Friday morning.

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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/1/22/33

Correspondence Details

Sender: Mary Beauvoir (née Sharpe, later Douglas)

Place sent: London

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: to be determined

Date sent: 23 March 1781

Letter Description

Summary: Note from Mary Sharpe to Mary Hamilton. Sharpe writes noting that she is prevented from visiting Hamilton due to her poor health.
Dated at Stanhope Street, [London].

Length: 1 sheet, 77 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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