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MS Eng 1778 170

Note from Hannah More to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text


I have not heard very lately from Mrs.
Garrick -- I hope to go to her in Decbr.
Do you know if the Veseys are gone
to Town Yet? The Pepys's are still at
Tunbridge -- She is a most pleasant
Correspondent. -- I had a hundred things to
say to You not one of which I have said.
I have had an hundred applications for
the Bas bleu, but have been Inflexible.
If Copies are multiplied I know it
[wi]ll get into Prints -- Therefore prenez Garde



     
To
Miʃs Hamilton[1]


Theophrastu's Histry of St[ones]
                             &c[2]
General Natural Histr by John
                             Hill[3] [4]

[5]

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Notes


 1. This address is written vertically.
 2. This likely refers to John Hill's Theophrastus' History of Stones. With an English Version, and Critical and Philosophical Notes, Including the Modern History of the Gems, published in 1746.
 3. The full title is A General Natural History: Or New and Accurate Descriptions of the Animals, Vegetables, and Minerals of the Different Parts of the World, which was published in three volumes between 1748 and 1752.
 4. This annotation is written vertically and upside down in relation the address above.
 5. Remains of a seal, in black wax.

Normalised Text


I have not heard very lately from Mrs.
Garrick -- I hope to go to her in December
Do you know if the Veseys are gone
to Town Yet? The Pepys's are still at
Tunbridge -- She is a most pleasant
Correspondent. -- I had a hundred things to
say to You not one of which I have said.
I have had an hundred applications for
the Bas bleu, but have been Inflexible.
If Copies are multiplied I know it
will get into Prints -- Therefore prenez Garde



     
To
Miss Hamilton




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 1. This address is written vertically.
 2. This likely refers to John Hill's Theophrastus' History of Stones. With an English Version, and Critical and Philosophical Notes, Including the Modern History of the Gems, published in 1746.
 3. The full title is A General Natural History: Or New and Accurate Descriptions of the Animals, Vegetables, and Minerals of the Different Parts of the World, which was published in three volumes between 1748 and 1752.
 4. This annotation is written vertically and upside down in relation the address above.
 5. Remains of a seal, in black wax.

Metadata

Library References

Repository: Houghton Library Repository, Harvard University

Archive: Elizabeth Carter and Hannah More letters to Mary Hamilton

Item title: Note from Hannah More to Mary Hamilton

Shelfmark: MS Eng 1778 170

Correspondence Details

Sender: Hannah More

Place sent: unknown

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: unknown

Date sent: between July 1783 and June 1785
notBefore July 1783 (precision: medium)
notAfter June 1785 (precision: high)

Letter Description

Summary: More, Hannah, 1745-1833. Autograph manuscript letter (unsigned) to Mary Hamilton, undated.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 87 words

Transliteration Information

Editorial declaration: First transcribed for the project 'The Collected Letters of Hannah More' (Kerri Andrews & others) and incorporated 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: Transcription and XML version created as part of project 'Unlocking the Mary Hamilton Papers', funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council under grant AH/S007121/1.

Transliterator: Kerri Andrews, Senior Lecturer, Edge Hill University (submitted 11 August 2020)

Cataloguer: Bonnie B. Salt, Archivist, Houghton Library

Copyright: Transcriptions, notes and TEI/XML © the editors

Revision date: 17 October 2022

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