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It will not be in my
power I fear, my dear Friend
to profit by your kind Invi
tation for Tuesday next. I will
tell you my Reason when I see
you. which I hope will be before
then. Ever your most obliged
& Affectionate
ECarter
Fryday Morning.
[1]
[2]
Mrs Dickenson
N°. 58 Lower Brook Street
[pe]nny post
May 5. 2. afternoon
[3]
[4]
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Normalised Text
It will not be in my
power I fear, my dear Friend
to profit by your kind Invitation
for Tuesday next. I will
tell you my Reason when I see
you. which I hope will be before
then. Ever your most obliged
& Affectionate
Elizabeth Carter
Friday Morning.
Mrs Dickenson
N°. 58 Lower Brook Street
penny post
May 5. 2. afternoon
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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 89
Correspondence Details
Sender: Elizabeth Carter
Place sent: London (certainty: low)
Addressee: Mary Hamilton
Place received: London
Date sent: 5 May 1797
Letter Description
Summary: Note from Elizabeth Carter to Mary Hamilton to say she cannot make Hamilton's invitation, for a reason to be explained later.
Original entry in Houghton Library catalogue: Carter, Elizabeth, 1717-1806. Autograph manuscript letter (signed) to Mary Hamilton, no year May 9.
Length: 2 sheets, 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: 17 October 2026
