Diplomatic Text
Monday Morning
17th. Febry 1783
I thank you very much my dear Miʃs
Hamilton, for your good wishes towards me. and
if disengaged when you send, will certainly wait
on you after mentioning one condition, which I
have already made with Mrs. Chapone, namely
that the topic which you so justly call painfull,
shall never be mentioned or alluded to either
in conversation or writing between us.
Aʃsured of this, a friendly intercourse with
you I shall consider as a valuable acquisition.
Without this aʃsurance however unwillingly,
I must renounce a meetting which wou'd
infringe on a plan I have laid down to
my- self, for the preservation of the peace
and tranquility at present enjoyed by
M. Beauvoir
Sharpe
Beauvoir
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Normalised Text
Monday Morning
I thank you very much my dear Miss
Hamilton, for your good wishes towards me. and
if disengaged when you send, will certainly wait
on you after mentioning one condition, which I
have already made with Mrs. Chapone, namely
that the topic which you so justly call painful,
shall never be mentioned or alluded to either
in conversation or writing between us.
Assured of this, a friendly intercourse with
you I shall consider as a valuable acquisition.
Without this assurance however unwillingly,
I must renounce a meeting which would
infringe on a plan I have laid down to
my- self, for the preservation of the peace
and tranquility at present enjoyed by
Mary Beauvoir
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Notes
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/1/22/56
Correspondence Details
Sender: Mary Beauvoir (née Sharpe, later Douglas)
Place sent: London
Addressee: Mary Hamilton
Place received: London
Date sent: 17 February 1783
Letter Description
Summary: Note from Mary Beauvoir (née Sharpe, wife of Osmond Beauvoir) to Mary Hamilton. She refers to 'the topic which you so justly call painfull' [Beauvoir's rupture with Elizabeth Carter] and remarks that it 'shall never be mentioned or alluded to either in conversation or writing between us'. If Hamilton agrees to this, Beauvoir will continue their acquaintance. 'Without this assurance', however, Beauvoir will 'renounce' meeting with Hamilton again. The two friends seem to have fallen out on this matter, on which see HAM/1/22/52 and HAM/1/22/54.
Dated at Stanhope Street, [London].
Formerly catalogued as HAM/1/9/64.
Length: 1 sheet, 120 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 7 June 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
