Diplomatic Text
33a
My dear Friend
If to morrow is a Convenient Morning to you
& Miʃs Clarkes I will wait on you to Breakfast. If you
Could be ready by ½ past 9; instead of ten, it would suit
me better as I am to call afterwards on a Friend who goes
out Early. Yours affectionately
ECarter
Sunday. May 178 1783
[1]
me know in your
Answer, how dear
Lady wake does
My dear[2]
Miʃs Hamilton
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Notes
1. The postscript appears to the right of the signature.
2. The status of this annotation is uncertain. One possibility is that Carter's postscript originally ended with this salutation, that the words were lost when the paper was torn, and that Hamilton rewrote them. The alternative, that this is an aborted response to Carter's note, started on the back of the same sheet but quickly abandoned, seems less plausible.
Normalised Text
My dear Friend
If to morrow is a Convenient Morning to you
& Miss Clarkes I will wait on you to Breakfast. If you
Could be ready by ½ past 9; instead of ten, it would suit
me better as I am to call afterwards on a Friend who goes
out Early. Yours affectionately
Elizabeth Carter
Sunday. May 18 1783
me know in your
Answer, how dear
Lady wake does
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 33a
Correspondence Details
Sender: Elizabeth Carter
Place sent: London (certainty: medium)
Addressee: Mary Hamilton
Place received: London (certainty: medium)
Date sent: 18 May 1783
Letter Description
Summary: Note from Elizabeth Carter to Mary Hamilton, asking to be allowed to visit Hamilton and the Miss Clarkes for an early breakfast the next day, because of a subsequent appointment.
Original entry in Houghton Library catalogue: Carter, Elizabeth, 1717-1806. Autograph manuscript letter (signed) to Mary Hamilton, 1783 May 18.
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: 26 July 2026
