MS Eng 1778 58a

Note from Elizabeth Carter to Mary Hamilton

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Diplomatic Text

I shall be very happy to see you at Breakfast my
dear Friend in a few days: but at present I am
in Expectation of my Brother's coming to Town
& I shall be engaged in a Morning walk with him, &
with my Sister Douglas who is in very uncomfortable
Health. I will ask Mr Vesey to carry me to L^y H. &
will mention that you wish the same.^[1] Ever yours EC

58a

      To
Miʃs Ha[milton]^[2]

                                                         Jan^ry. 22^d. 85
                                                         M^rs Carter^[3]

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Notes

1. Hamilton reports to John Dickenson on 23 January 1785, ‘at 5 went w^th. Pieta M^rs. Carter & y^e. Fairys Husband to S^r: Rob^t. Herries's’ (see HAM/2/15/3 p.43).
2. The part of the name covered by pasting the sheet to the support can be read from the image of p.2 in Mirador by enhancing and flipping the image. The direction is written upside down as displayed.
3. The annotation is written vertically.

Normalised Text

I shall be very happy to see you at Breakfast my
dear Friend in a few days: but at present I am
in Expectation of my Brother's coming to Town
& I shall be engaged in a Morning walk with him, &
with my Sister Douglas who is in very uncomfortable
Health. I will ask Mr Vesey to carry me to Lady Herries &
will mention that you wish the same. Ever yours Elizabeth Carter

To
Miss Hamilton

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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 58a

Correspondence Details

Sender: Elizabeth Carter

Place sent: London (certainty: medium)

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: London (certainty: medium)

Date sent: 22 January 1785

Letter Description

Summary: Note from Elizabeth Carter to Mary Hamilton, with arrangements for meeting and expected visits by her brother and sister.
Original entry in Houghton Library catalogue: Carter, Elizabeth, 1717-1806. Autograph manuscript letter (signed) to Mary Hamilton, 1785 January 22.

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: 6 October 2026

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