HAM/1/22/53
Covering note from Mary Sharpe (later Beauvoir) to John Dickenson
Diplomatic Text
[1]
Mrs Beauvoir presents compts
to Mr Dickenson & begs leave to request
the favor of him to forward the
enclosed to Mrs D——.
Bath
July 31st. 1789
—— Dickenson Esqr.
No 18
Queen Square.
red text is normalised and/or unformatted in other panel)
Notes
1. This note was sent to Dickenson in Bath, enclosing a letter of very different tone for his wife Mary Hamilton in Taxal (see HAM/1/22/52).
Normalised Text
Mrs Beauvoir presents compliments
to Mr Dickenson & begs leave to request
the favor of him to forward the
enclosed to Mrs Dickenson.
Bath
—— Dickenson Esqr.
No 18
Queen Square.
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: Covering note from Mary Sharpe (later Beauvoir) to John Dickenson
Shelfmark: HAM/1/22/53
Correspondence Details
Sender: Mary Beauvoir (née Sharpe, later Douglas)
Place sent: Bath
Addressee: John Dickenson
Place received: Bath
Date sent: 31 July 1789
Letter Description
Summary: Covering note from Mary Beauvoir (née Sharpe) to John Dickenson, asking him to pass the enclosed note, HAM/1/22/52, to Hamilton.
Dated at Bath.
Length: 1 sheet, 31 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
