D2375/F/G/2/1(69)
Note from Lady Frances Harpur (née Greville) to Mary Hamilton
Diplomatic Text
Dear Miʃs Hamilton
I am Much obliged by Your kind Enquiries,
I did not know You was returned till Yesterday
Evening -- I have still a little Complaint in My
Stomach; & shall not go out, either tomorrow or
Tuesday Evening -- I meant to have Requested the
Favor of Your Company; If you will let Me know
Which will suit You Best; I will send the Coach,
as It is now at My Disposal; Sr. Harry being out
of Town; -- I am dear Miʃs Hamilton Yrs.
Most Affecly- Frances Harpur
Sunday -- 210th --- . Decbr. 1783[1]
1783. Decr.[2]
red text is normalised and/or unformatted in other panel)
Notes
1. Harpur's note was almost certainly sent on Sunday 21 December (receipt acknowledged in Hamilton's diary, HAM/2/6 p.76), in answer to a note that Hamilton had written that morning (HAM/2/6 p.75), soon after her return to Clarges Street. It looks as if the date has been miscorrected from ‘21st’ to ‘20th’.
2. This note is written vertically in the bottom right-hand margin.
Normalised Text
Dear Miss Hamilton
I am Much obliged by Your kind Enquiries,
I did not know You was returned till Yesterday
Evening -- I have still a little Complaint in My
Stomach; & shall not go out, either tomorrow or
Tuesday Evening -- I meant to have Requested the
Favour of Your Company; If you will let Me know
Which will suit You Best; I will send the Coach,
as It is now at My Disposal; Sir Harry being out
of Town; -- I am dear Miss Hamilton Yours
Most Affectionately Frances Harpur
Sunday --
quotations, spellings, uncorrected forms, split words, abbreviations, formatting)
Notes
Metadata
Library References
Repository: Derbyshire Record Office, Derbyshire County Council
Archive: D2375 Harpur Crewe family of Calke Abbey
Item title: Note from Lady Frances Harpur (née Greville) to Mary Hamilton
Shelfmark: D2375/F/G/2/1(69)
Correspondence Details
Sender: Frances Elizabeth Harpur (née Greville)
Place sent: unknown
Addressee: Mary Hamilton
Place received: London (certainty: high)
Date sent: 21 December 1783
when 21 December 1783 (precision: high)
Letter Description
Summary: Lady Frances Harpur has meant to invite Mary Hamilton. She still has ‘a little Complaint in [her] Stomach’ but will be able to send the coach for her on Monday or Tuesday evening, ‘Sir Harry being out of Town’.
Dated Sunday, 21 December 1783.
Length: 1 sheet, 90 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: Laura Peter, BA student, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) (submitted 30 August 2022)
Transliterator: Christine Wallis, editorial team (completed 25 May 2023)
Cataloguer: Neil Bettridge, Archivist, Derbyshire Record Office
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Revision date: 9 June 2023