Single Letter

MS Eng 1778 97

Note from Elizabeth Carter to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text


97



      My dear Friend
      I will obey your kind Summons for
Tuesday Morning at 11 if my Head does not
Contradict. If the Weather is dry, I will not
trouble your Coach. Yours affectionately
                             ECarter
6 May 1799





                                                         Mrs Dickenson[1]
                                                         99[2]

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Notes


 1. The direction is written upside down.
 2. This number, different from the one used on the support of p.1, is written vertically in a different hand.

Normalised Text




      My dear Friend
      I will obey your kind Summons for
Tuesday Morning at 11 if my Head does not
Contradict. If the Weather is dry, I will not
trouble your Coach. Yours affectionately
                             Elizabeth Carter
6 May 1799





                                                         Mrs Dickenson
                                                        

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 1. The direction is written upside down.
 2. This number, different from the one used on the support of p.1, is written vertically in a different hand.

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 97

Correspondence Details

Author(s): Elizabeth Carter

Date of creation: 6 May 1799

Date sent: 6 May 1799

Place sent: London (certainty: high)

Recipient(s): Mary Hamilton

Place received: London (certainty: high)

Letter Description

Summary: Note from Elizabeth Carter to Mary Hamilton, provisionally accepting an invitation for the following Tuesday and adding ‘If the weather is dry, I will not trouble your Coach’.
    Original entry in Houghton Library catalogue: Carter, Elizabeth, 1717-1806. Autograph manuscript letter (signed) to Mary Hamilton, 1799 May 6.
   

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: 30 October 2026

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