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HAM/2/15/2

Fragment of a sheet from the diary of Mary Hamilton (between April and December 1783)

Diplomatic Text

[1]
I wrote to the Mangle Man to please B——y -- I forgot to say
that the Burke Coalition is spoken of wth- abhorrence & the young
Men say the F will do every thing to oppose the Turncoat -- [2]


proposes to spend half the year with her own sister & Mother
half with Miʃs Clarkes if it can be arranged[3] -- she is returnd

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Notes


 1. The content of this fragment suggests a diary entry rather than a letter, and it can be roughly dated by the mention of the Fox-North coalition.
 2. The rest of the sheet is cut away.
 3. It is not currently known who proposes to live with the unmarried Clarke sisters; a possible candidate is Wilhelmina King.

Normalised Text


I wrote to the Mangle Man to please Betty -- I forgot to say
that the Burke Coalition is spoken of with abhorrence & the young
Men say the F will do every thing to oppose the Turncoat --


proposes to spend half the year with her own sister & Mother
half with Miss Clarkes if it can be arranged -- she is returned

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 1. The content of this fragment suggests a diary entry rather than a letter, and it can be roughly dated by the mention of the Fox-North coalition.
 2. The rest of the sheet is cut away.
 3. It is not currently known who proposes to live with the unmarried Clarke sisters; a possible candidate is Wilhelmina King.

Metadata

Library References

Repository: John Rylands Research Institute and Library, University of Manchester

Archive: Mary Hamilton Papers

Item title: Fragment of a sheet from the diary of Mary Hamilton (between April and December 1783)

Shelfmark: HAM/2/15/2

Document Details

Author: Mary Hamilton

Date: between April and December 1783

Summary: This diary fragment is bound together with HAM/2/15/1 and HAM/2/15/3 but has no original connection with either. Its two disjoint passages, amounting to five or six lines altogether, concern domestic arrangements (‘the Mangle Man’), political news about ‘the Burke Coalition’, and the possibility of another lodger spending half the year with the Miss Clarkes.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 61 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: Transcription and XML version created as part of project 'Unlocking the Mary Hamilton Papers', funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council under grant AH/S007121/1.

Transliterator: Christine Wallis, editorial team (completed 2 August 2021)

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: 26 April 2023

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