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MS Eng 1778 57a

Note from Elizabeth Carter to Mary Hamilton

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57a
      I will wait on you my dear Friend on Wednesday
I shall not have the pleasure of meeting you
to morrow as I have been engaged for some
days to Mrs ord.[1]           pray send me some
Franks as soon as you have them. Bon Soir
                             ma chere
15th. Janry. 1785[2]


57a

Miʃs Hamilton[3]


                                                         Mrs Carter
                                                         15 Janry 85[4]

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Notes


 1. Hamilton reports to John Dickenson on 10 January 1785 that Mrs Ord ‘is just come to Town for ye. Winter’ (see HAM/2/15/3 pp.21-22).
 2. The date appears to the left of the closing salutation.
 3. The direction is written upside down as displayed.
 4. The annotation is written vertically.

Normalised Text




      I will wait on you my dear Friend on Wednesday
I shall not have the pleasure of meeting you
to morrow as I have been engaged for some
days to Mrs ord.           pray send me some
Franks as soon as you have them. Bon Soir
                             ma chere





Miss Hamilton


                                                        

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 1. Hamilton reports to John Dickenson on 10 January 1785 that Mrs Ord ‘is just come to Town for ye. Winter’ (see HAM/2/15/3 pp.21-22).
 2. The date appears to the left of the closing salutation.
 3. The direction is written upside down as displayed.
 4. The annotation is written vertically.

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 57a

Correspondence Details

Sender: Elizabeth Carter

Place sent: London (certainty: low)

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: London (certainty: medium)

Date sent: 15 January 1785

Letter Description

Summary: Note from Elizabeth Carter to Mary Hamilton, with arrangements for meeting.
    Original entry in Houghton Library catalogue: Carter, Elizabeth, 1717-1806. Autograph manuscript letter (signed) to Mary Hamilton, 1785 January 15.
   

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: 6 October 2026

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