MS Eng 1778 27a

Note from Elizabeth Carter to Mary Hamilton

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27a
      I will be ready to attend you my dear Friend
on Tuesday Morning if it does not prove that I am
engaged, which in the Confusion of a feverish Head I
cannot recollect: but believe I am not.      I hope you shall
be Early      ever yours           E. C.

Miʃs Hamilton

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      I will be ready to attend you my dear Friend
on Tuesday Morning if it does not prove that I am
engaged, which in the Confusion of a feverish Head I
cannot recollect: but believe I am not.      I hope you shall
be Early      ever yours           Elizabeth Carter

Miss Hamilton

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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 27a

Correspondence Details

Sender: Elizabeth Carter

Place sent: unknown

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: unknown

Date sent: n.d.

Letter Description

Summary: Note from Elizabeth Carter to Mary Hamilton, tentatively agreeing to visit.
Original entry in Houghton Library catalogue: Carter, Elizabeth, 1717-1806. Autograph manuscript letter (signed) to Mary Hamilton, undated.

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, M^rs. or M^rs may occur, but M.^rs or M^r.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

Revision date: 2 August 2026

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