Diplomatic Text
48b
176th
Febry
1784
If you remember my dear Miss Hamilton our
Agreement was that I was not to come
to you unleʃs the weather changed, which it
certainly has not.[1] However I will attempt getting
as far as you any day this Week you will name
except Wednesday, for I foresee no End to the
[f]rost & Snow.[2] yours most affectionately
EC.
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Notes
1. On 16 February 1784, Mr. Dewes comes to Hamilton for breakfast; ‘Mrs. Carter was to have come but ye. streets being so slippery from ye. Snow & frost she did not’ (see HAM/2/7 p.85).
2. Hamilton's diary records no visit from Carter that week; they meet the following Tuesday at Mrs Iremonger's (see MS Eng 1778 48a).
Normalised Text
If you remember my dear Miss Hamilton our
Agreement was that I was not to come
to you unless the weather changed, which it
certainly has not. However I will attempt getting
as far as you any day this Week you will name
except Wednesday, for I foresee no End to the
frost & Snow. yours most affectionately
Elizabeth Carter
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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 48b
Correspondence Details
Sender: Elizabeth Carter
Place sent: unknown
Addressee: Mary Hamilton
Place received: unknown
Date sent: 16 February 1784
Letter Description
Summary: Note from Elizabeth Carter to Mary Hamilton, reminding her that her acceptance of an invitation [to breakfast, along with Mr Dewes] had beeen conditional on an improvement in the weather.
Original entry in Houghton Library catalogue: Carter, Elizabeth, 1717-1806. Autograph manuscript letter (signed) to Mary Hamilton, 1784 February 16.
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
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Revision date: 28 September 2026
