HAM/1/22/51

Note from Mary Sharpe (later Beauvoir) to Mary Hamilton

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Diplomatic Text

      My dear Miʃs Hamilton

                                              For reasons
I will tell you when we meet, M^rs C & I
are prevented going to you to: morrow. May
we go to you on Monday morning. Adieu
      my head akes so, I can only say I am
                             Y^rs Affec^tly
                                       M. Sharpe
Stanhope Street
Wednesday.^[1]

Miʃs Hamilton^[2]

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Notes

1. The dateline appears to the left of the signature.
2. The direction is written vertically.

Normalised Text

      My dear Miss Hamilton

                     For reasons
I will tell you when we meet, Mrs Carter & I
are prevented going to you to: morrow. May
we go to you on Monday morning. Adieu
      my head aches so, I can only say I am
                             Yours Affectionately
                                       Mary Sharpe
Stanhope Street
Wednesday.

Miss Hamilton

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Notes

1. The dateline appears to the left of the signature.
2. The direction is written vertically.

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/1/22/51

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 to re-arrange a meeting with Hamilton.

Length: 1 sheet, 52 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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