Diplomatic Text
[1]
I have very little good to say of myself
my dear. my head is not well and my
spirits are low. In a few days I will write
to you again -- beleive ever
Most Sincerely & Affectly Yrs
M. S.
Tuesday night. 26th March 1782
Miʃs Hamilton
red text is normalised and/or unformatted in other panel)
Notes
1. This is the first indication of a change in Sharpe's relationships (see further the definitive HAM/1/22/43).
Normalised Text
I have very little good to say of myself
my dear. my head is not well and my
spirits are low. In a few days I will write
to you again -- believe ever
Most Sincerely & Affectionately Yours
Mary Sharpe
Tuesday night.
Miss Hamilton
quotations, spellings, uncorrected forms, split words, abbreviations, formatting)
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/1/22/42
Correspondence Details
Sender: Mary Beauvoir (née Sharpe, later Douglas)
Place sent: to be determined
Addressee: Mary Hamilton
Place received: to be determined
Date sent: 26 March 1782
Letter Description
Summary: Note from Mary Sharpe to Mary Hamilton. She has a headache and her 'spirits are low'.
Length: 1 sheet, 44 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
