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HAM/1/22/48

Note from Mary Sharpe (later Beauvoir) to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text


      I shall be quite alone till 8 o'clock
this afternoon, my dear Miʃs Hamilton;
if you have nothing particular to do, it will be
charity to come to me. If you can come after 8
 - you will find Mrs Carter, who desires her love to
you. I shall be happy to see[1] at any hour in the afternoon


or evening. shall we breakfast with you on
Wednesday. Pardon this scrap & beleive me Yrs
                             Affectly
                                  M. Sharpe.

Miʃs Hamilton[2]

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Notes


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Normalised Text


      I shall be quite alone till 8 o'clock
this afternoon, my dear Miss Hamilton;
if you have nothing particular to do, it will be
charity to come to me. If you can come after 8
you will find Mrs Carter, who desires her love to
you. I shall be happy to see at any hour in the afternoon


or evening. shall we breakfast with you on
Wednesday. Pardon this scrap & believe me Yours
                             Affectionately
                                  Mary Sharpe.

Miss Hamilton

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 1. The word you is missing.
 2. The direction is written at the right of the page and the words split apart, with two different orientations, by unfolding.

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/1/22/48

Correspondence Details

Sender: Mary Beauvoir (née Sharpe, later Douglas)

Place sent: to be determined

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: to be determined

Date sent: between March 1779 and April 1782
notBefore March 1779 (precision: high)
notAfter April 1782 (precision: medium)

Letter Description

Summary: Note from Mary Sharpe to Mary Hamilton. Sharpe writes inviting Hamilton to call on her.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 79 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

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