Diplomatic Text
3b
A thousand Thanks to you my dear
Miʃs Hamilton, which I will bring you
in person by the first opportunity but
▼ I fear it cannot be Monday. Many of
my Friends are very complaining. Mrs Montagu
very ill though I thank God better than she
was. Miʃs Sharpe still confined. I write in
great Haste & can only add most affectionately
Yours E. Carter Sunday morng. Janry
1780
I shall be with Miʃs Sharpe this Evening
Miʃs Hamilton
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Normalised Text
A thousand Thanks to you my dear
Miss Hamilton, which I will bring you
in person by the first opportunity but
▼ I fear it cannot be Monday. Many of
my Friends are very complaining. Mrs Montagu
very ill though I thank God better than she
was. Miss Sharpe still confined. I write in
great Haste & can only add most affectionately
Yours Elizabeth Carter Sunday morning
I shall be with Miss Sharpe this Evening
Miss Hamilton
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Metadata
Library References
Repository: Houghton Library Repository, Harvard University
Archive: Elizabeth Carter and Hannah More letters to Mary Hamilton
Item title: Note from Elizabeth Carter to Mary Hamilton
Shelfmark: MS Eng 1778 3b
Correspondence Details
Sender: Elizabeth Carter
Place sent: unknown
Addressee: Mary Hamilton
Place received: unknown
Date sent: January 1780
Letter Description
Summary: Note from Elizabeth Carter to Mary Hamilton, thanking her for something unspecified, and putting off a planned visit the next day amid the illness of many friends.
Original entry in Houghton Library catalogue: Carter, Elizabeth, 1717-1806. Autograph manuscript letter (signed) to Mary Hamilton, January 1780.
Length: 1 sheet, 76 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 13 January 2026)
Cataloguer: Bonnie B. Salt, Archivist, Houghton Library
Copyright: Transcriptions, notes and TEI/XML © the editors
Revision date: 7 April 2026
