HAM/1/22/50

Note from Mary Sharpe (later Beauvoir) to Mary Hamilton

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Diplomatic Text

Stanhope Street
Monday.

      My dear Miʃs Hamilton,
                                              Tho I am not
well enough to see company to morrow yet
I can not bring my- self to put you off
among the rest, as perhaps you will pay a
charitable visit to
                             Y^rs Affec^tly
                                       M Sharpe

Miʃs Hamilton

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Normalised Text

Stanhope Street
Monday.

      My dear Miss Hamilton,
                     Though I am not
well enough to see company to morrow yet
I can not bring my- self to put you off
among the rest, as perhaps you will pay a
charitable visit to
                             Yours Affectionately
                                       Mary Sharpe

Miss Hamilton

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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/1/22/50

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 is not well enough for 'company' but does not want to put Hamilton off calling as she has done for others, and asks if she would be willing to make a 'charitable' call on her.

Length: 1 sheet, 47 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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