Single Letter

MS Eng 1778 48

Note from Elizabeth Carter to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text


48[1]


      many Thanks my dear for your
kind note.[2] By no means think of walking
▼ this slippery weather.    I expect Mrs Montagu's
Coach to fetch me to dine with her to day.
I did receive your kind Letter I can only
add that I long to See you & am
Most affectionately yours E Carter[3]
31st-
Decbr-
1783[4]


Miʃs Hamilton

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Notes


 1. Moved annotation with reference number from halfway down support.
 2. Hamilton notes in her diary for 30 December 1783: ‘heard Mrs. Carter was Come to Town’; see HAM/2/6 p.92.
 3. A couple of letters in the last two lines are retraced, probably by Carter but possibly by Hamilton.
 4. The date is written in the left margin, level with the last two lines of the letter.

Normalised Text



      many Thanks my dear for your
kind note. By no means think of walking
▼ this slippery weather.    I expect Mrs Montagu's
Coach to fetch me to dine with her to day.
I did receive your kind Letter I can only
add that I long to See you & am
Most affectionately yours Elizabeth Carter



Miss Hamilton

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 1. Moved annotation with reference number from halfway down support.
 2. Hamilton notes in her diary for 30 December 1783: ‘heard Mrs. Carter was Come to Town’; see HAM/2/6 p.92.
 3. A couple of letters in the last two lines are retraced, probably by Carter but possibly by Hamilton.
 4. The date is written in the left margin, level with the last two lines of the letter.

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 48

Correspondence Details

Sender: Elizabeth Carter

Place sent: unknown

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: unknown

Date sent: 31 December 1783

Letter Description

Summary: Note from Elizabeth Carter to Mary Hamilton, thanking her for a ‘kind Letter’ and warning against walking ‘this slippery weather’.
    Original entry in Houghton Library catalogue: Carter, Elizabeth, 1717-1806. Autograph manuscript letter (signed) to Mary Hamilton, 1783 December 31.
   

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: 2 October 2026

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