Diplomatic Text
Miʃs Hamilton
[1]
My intended journey for
change of air, takes place to= morrow
my dear. I have little to say in
favour of my cough, but I dare
say a very few days will improve
me. I will write you an account
of myself in a short time, and
hope soon to return with health
which may permit me to enjoy
the delight felt in your amiable
society by
Your
Sincerely Affect
M. Sharpe
Stanhope Street
Tuesday night. 12th. Febry- 1782
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Normalised Text
Miss Hamilton
My intended journey for
change of air, takes place to= morrow
my dear. I have little to say in
favour of my cough, but I dare
say a very few days will improve
me. I will write you an account
of myself in a short time, and
hope soon to return with health
which may permit me to enjoy
the delight felt in your amiable
society by
Your
Sincerely Affectionate
Mary Sharpe
Stanhope Street
Tuesday night.
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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/1/22/39
Correspondence Details
Sender: Mary Beauvoir (née Sharpe, later Douglas)
Place sent: London
Addressee: Mary Hamilton
Place received: to be determined
Date sent: 12 February 1782
Letter Description
Summary: Letter from Mary Sharpe to Mary Hamilton. Sharpe writes that she is to start out on her journey the next day (for the benefit of her health) and hopes to write a better account of her health shortly.
Dated at Stanhope Street, [London].
Length: 1 sheet, 78 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
