MS Eng 1778 33

Note from Elizabeth Carter to Mary Hamilton

diplomatic | normalised | metadata | image (pdf)

Diplomatic Text

Many Thanks to you my dear
for the Almanack, & L^y. Wakes Letter. I
designed to have brought that, my self,
this Morning: but I am kept at Home
in Expectation of a visitor. Yours most
affectionately
EC.
Thursday 30^th. April 1783

^[1]

                             ▼

      I sh^d be very happy in your Party
to morrow, but one cannot have all
Manner of good Things at once,
& I am engaged to sleep at Chelsea

                             To
           Miʃs Hamilton^[2]

(hover over blue text or annotations for clarification;
red text is normalised and/or unformatted in other panel)

Notes

1. Remains of a seal in red wax, more clearly visible at the top of p.2.
2. Moved address here from middle of page.

Normalised Text

Many Thanks to you my dear
for the Almanac, & Lady Wakes Letter. I
designed to have brought that, my self,
this Morning: but I am kept at Home
in Expectation of a visitor. Yours most
affectionately
Elizabeth Carter
Thursday

                             ▼

      I should be very happy in your Party
to morrow, but one cannot have all
Manner of good Things at once,
& I am engaged to sleep at Chelsea

                             To
           Miss Hamilton

(consult diplomatic text or XML for annotations, deletions, clarifications, persons,
quotations, spellings, uncorrected forms, split words, abbreviations, formatting)

Notes

1. Remains of a seal in red wax, more clearly visible at the top of p.2.
2. Moved address here from middle of page.

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 33

Correspondence Details

Sender: Elizabeth Carter

Place sent: unknown

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: unknown

Date sent: 30 April 1783

Letter Description

Summary: Note from Elizabeth Carter to Mary Hamilton, thanking her for an almanac and for Lady Wake's letter, which she would have returned that morning but cannot now visit Hamilton either that day or the next.
Original entry in Houghton Library catalogue: Carter, Elizabeth, 1717-1806. Autograph manuscript letter (signed) to Mary Hamilton, 1783 April 30.

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: 3 August 2026

Single Letter