Unlocking the Mary Hamilton papers

Single Letter

MS Eng 1778 178

Note from Hannah More to Mary Hamilton and John Dickenson

Diplomatic Text


                                                         AprilMarch 31st. 1788
My dear Friends

      We receive the agreeable
notification of your arrival, and are
sorry not to avail ourselves of it directly.
      We are going out of Town for a day
or two, but shall take the first moment
of our return for calling on You. Adieu
                             God bleʃs You. We long to
                             see you -- HM



Mrs. Dickenson
No. 5 George St[1]
      Hanover Square[2]

(hover over blue text or annotations for clarification;
red text is normalised and/or unformatted in other panel)


Notes


 1. This is not present-day George Street but present-day St. George Street, in Mayfair.
 2. This address is written upside down at the bottom left of the page.

Normalised Text


                                                         March 31st. 1788
My dear Friends

      We receive the agreeable
notification of your arrival, and are
sorry not to avail ourselves of it directly.
      We are going out of Town for a day
or two, but shall take the first moment
of our return for calling on You. Adieu
                             God bless You. We long to
                             see you -- Hannah More



Mrs. Dickenson
No. 5 George St
      Hanover Square

(consult diplomatic text or XML for annotations, deletions, clarifications, persons,
quotations, spellings, uncorrected forms, split words, abbreviations, formatting)



 1. This is not present-day George Street but present-day St. George Street, in Mayfair.
 2. This address is written upside down at the bottom left of the page.

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 and John Dickenson

Shelfmark: MS Eng 1778 178

Correspondence Details

Sender: Hannah More

Place sent: unknown

Addressee: Mary Hamilton and John Dickenson

Place received: London

Date sent: 31 March 1788

Letter Description

Summary: More, Hannah, 1745-1833. Autograph manuscript letter (signed) to Mary Hamilton and John Dickenson, 1788 March 31.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 67 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: 26 October 2022

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