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Mrs Carter presents her Compliments to
Miʃs Hamilton & returns her best Thanks for the
favour of her visit last Night, & kind Invitation
this morning. She will certainly do her Self the
Honour of waiting on her on Saturday, unless she is
prevented by some Engagement with her Sister whom
she expects in Town, for a few days, this week. Mrs Carter
hopes Miʃs Hamilton will excuse this Scrap of paper, as
She is not at Home.
Saturday morning
To
Miʃs Hamilton[1]
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Normalised Text
Mrs Carter presents her Compliments to
Miss Hamilton & returns her best Thanks for the
favour of her visit last Night, & kind Invitation
this morning. She will certainly do her Self the
Honour of waiting on her on Saturday, unless she is
prevented by some Engagement with her Sister whom
she expects in Town, for a few days, this week. Mrs Carter
hopes Miss Hamilton will excuse this Scrap of paper, as
She is not at Home.
Saturday morning
To
Miss Hamilton
quotations, spellings, uncorrected forms, split words, abbreviations, formatting)
Notes
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 27
Correspondence Details
Sender: Elizabeth Carter
Place sent: unknown
Addressee: Mary Hamilton
Place received: unknown
Date sent: not after June 1785
notAfter June 1785 (precision: high)
Letter Description
Summary: Note from Elizabeth Carter to Mary Hamilton, thanking her for a visit and provisionally agreeing to return the visit the following week.
Original entry in Houghton Library catalogue: Carter, Elizabeth, 1717-1806. Autograph manuscript letter (signed) to Mary Hamilton, Saturday morning.
Length: 1 sheet, 000 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 26 February 2026)
Cataloguer: Bonnie B. Salt, Archivist, Houghton Library
Copyright: Transcriptions, notes and TEI/XML © the editors
Revision date: 25 July 2026
