Single Letter

MS Eng 1778 59a

Paper template in the shape of a heart

Diplomatic Text



[1]
                             Anne
                                                         M ------ 
                                                         Wil --- 
[S]he died  ------------  [1]743.[2]

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Notes


 1. A horizontal red line might well imply that ‘Anne’ was an eldest child and perhaps unmarried.
 2. Death in 1743 doesn't necessarily refer to ‘Anne’ above: it could belong with a name written further to the left on the family tree, such as, perhaps, Lady Frances Worsley, Countess Granville (1694-1743), who married Lord John Carteret, 2nd Earl of Granville in 1710 (Wikipedia).

Normalised Text




                             Anne
                                                         M ------ 
                                                         Wil --- 
She died  ------------  1743.

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 1. A horizontal red line might well imply that ‘Anne’ was an eldest child and perhaps unmarried.
 2. Death in 1743 doesn't necessarily refer to ‘Anne’ above: it could belong with a name written further to the left on the family tree, such as, perhaps, Lady Frances Worsley, Countess Granville (1694-1743), who married Lord John Carteret, 2nd Earl of Granville in 1710 (Wikipedia).

Metadata

Library References

Repository: Houghton Library Repository, Harvard University

Archive: Elizabeth Carter and Hannah More letters to Mary Hamilton

Item title: Paper template in the shape of a heart

Shelfmark: MS Eng 1778 59a

Document Details

Author: Mary Delany (née Granville, formerly Pendarves)

Date: n.d.

Summary: Paper template in the shape of a heart. One of a number of such templates; see MS Eng 1778 1aa.
    Original entry in Houghton Library catalogue: Paper bookmark in the shape of a heart.
   

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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