HAM/1/22/40

Note from Mary Sharpe (later Beauvoir) to Mary Hamilton

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Diplomatic Text

      Is it true my dear
Miʃs Hamilton, that you can
come to me on Sunday afternoon?
I shall rejoyce to see you.
I have brought Miʃs Bell
Beauvoir with me from Canterbury,
but for all that, you and I
shall I trust have some snug
tetes a tete's, as I shall not
scruple to leave her for an
hour or two. Adieu ever Y^rs
                                       Affec^tly
                                            M S.

Stanhope Street
      Friday. 15^th. March 1782

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Normalised Text

      Is it true my dear
Miss Hamilton, that you can
come to me on Sunday afternoon?
I shall rejoice to see you.
I have brought Miss Bell
Beauvoir with me from Canterbury,
but for all that, you and I
shall I trust have some snug
tetes a tete's, as I shall not
scruple to leave her for an
hour or two. Adieu ever Yours
                                       Affectionately
                                            Mary Sharpe.

Stanhope Street
      Friday.

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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/1/22/40

Correspondence Details

Sender: Mary Beauvoir (née Sharpe, later Douglas)

Place sent: London

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: to be determined

Date sent: 15 March 1782

Letter Description

Summary: Note from Mary Sharpe to Mary Hamilton. Sharpe writes inviting Hamilton to visit her. Miss Bell Beauvoir from Canterbury is visiting her but she will 'not scruple to leave her for an hour or two'.
Dated at Stanhope Street, [London].

Length: 1 sheet, 70 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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