Diplomatic Text
May 22.. 1782.
My dear
I have this moment received
yours by Mrs Cholmley, a multiplicity of writing
joined to an almost constant head ake,
occasioned by the very bad weather we have
here, has kept me from answering yours
as I wished not merely to acknowledge it
but answer it. I will however no longer defer
telling you, that the kind concern you expreʃs
for me in relation to my affairs need not
be attended with uneasineʃs, as they were
from the first by desire of Mr B.
put under the direction of a relation of
mine in Lincolns Inn. That what you heard
heard in relation to the disposition proposed
was partly true, partly false. but that whatever
they were they were from the first given to
Mr S.[1] to be altered & arranged as he thought
proper & right for me. I intended soon to
have written you a much longer detail,
but as I shou'd be sorry to have you suppose
I wish not to be considered by you as a friend,
I write this in haste, and with difficulty, now.
This must appologize for my adding no
more than an aʃsurance that I am
Yrs Affectly
M. Sharpe.
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Normalised Text
May 22.. 1782.
My dear
I have this moment received
yours by Mrs Cholmley, a multiplicity of writing
joined to an almost constant head ache,
occasioned by the very bad weather we have
here, has kept me from answering yours
as I wished not merely to acknowledge it
but answer it. I will however no longer defer
telling you, that the kind concern you express
for me in relation to my affairs need not
be attended with uneasiness, as they were
from the first by desire of Mr Beauvoir
put under the direction of a relation of
mine in Lincolns Inn. That what you
heard in relation to the disposition proposed
was partly true, partly false. but that whatever
they were they were from the first given to
Mr S. to be altered & arranged as he thought
proper & right for me. I intended soon to
have written you a much longer detail,
but as I should be sorry to have you suppose
I wish not to be considered by you as a friend,
I write this in haste, and with difficulty, now.
This must apologise for my adding no
more than an assurance that I am
Yours Affectionately
Mary Sharpe.
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: Letter from Mary Sharpe (later Beauvoir) to Mary Hamilton
Shelfmark: HAM/1/22/44
Correspondence Details
Sender: Mary Beauvoir (née Sharpe, later Douglas)
Place sent: Bath
Addressee: Mary Hamilton
Place received: to be determined
Date sent: 22 May 1782
Letter Description
Summary: Letter from Mary Sharpe to Mary Hamilton. Sharpe writes on Hamilton's 'kind concern' for her affairs [her engagement to Mr Beauvoir and on the settlements she is to make]. Sharpe notes that Hamilton need not be uneasy and that she will write a longer letter on this as soon as she is able.
Dated at Bath.
Length: 1 sheet, 203 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
