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My dear Friend
Many Thanks for your kind Information.
I heartily wish you could have given
me a better Account, of our Friend at
Clapham. I did not venture out this
Morning as my Head ached & the
Weather was so precarious, or I should
have called on you. I have had an
Invitation from Mrs Ord to meet you on
Thursday next. She mentions my Conveyance
by you, & I have ventured to say tell
her that you will be agreeable. Yours
affectionately E. Carter
Mrs dickenson[1]
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Normalised Text
My dear Friend
Many Thanks for your kind Information.
I heartily wish you could have given
me a better Account, of our Friend at
Clapham. I did not venture out this
Morning as my Head ached & the
Weather was so precarious, or I should
have called on you. I have had an
Invitation from Mrs Ord to meet you on
Thursday next. She mentions my Conveyance
by you, & I have ventured to tell
her that you will be agreeable. Yours
affectionately Elizabeth Carter
Mrs dickenson
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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 86
Correspondence Details
Sender: Elizabeth Carter
Place sent: unknown
Addressee: Mary Hamilton
Place received: unknown
Date sent: n.d.
Letter Description
Summary: Note from Elizabeth Carter to Mary Hamilton, arranging for Hamilton to take her to Mrs Ord's.
Original entry in Houghton Library catalogue: Carter, Elizabeth, 1717-1806. Autograph manuscript letter (signed) to Mary Hamilton, undated.
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: 16 October 2026
