HAM/1/22/41

Note from Mary Sharpe (later Beauvoir) to Mary Hamilton

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Diplomatic Text

      I have been hoping all day to be
able to go to you my dear but an inexorable
head ake obliges me to keep absolutely quiet.
      Say how you do & beleive me ever
                             Y^rs most Affec^tly.
      24^th. March 1782

Miʃs Hamilton
^[1]

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Notes

1. Remains of a seal, in red wax.

Normalised Text

      I have been hoping all day to be
able to go to you my dear but an inexorable
head ache obliges me to keep absolutely quiet.
      Say how you do & believe me ever
                             Yours most Affectionately.

Miss Hamilton

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1. Remains of a seal, in red wax.

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/1/22/41

Correspondence Details

Sender: Mary Beauvoir (née Sharpe, later Douglas)

Place sent: to be determined

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: to be determined

Date sent: 24 March 1782

Letter Description

Summary: Note from Mary Sharpe to Mary Hamilton. Sharpe has been hoping to see Hamilton all day but a headache prevents her doing so.

Length: 1 sheet, 39 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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