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MS Eng 1778 180

Note from Hannah More to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text


Ma chere Amie
      Mrs. G. hopes that You
and the Blackamoor will come here on
friday morning to breakfast at ten o
clock, and devote the whole day to us, which
is to be a blackguard Holiday.[1] Let us
have your answer to Night as we go to
Hampton to morrow for a day or two.
I had this book in my pocket last Night
but cou'd not give it You. Yrs. ever H More


                                                         Mrs. Dickenson

20th. April
1788[2]

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Notes


 1. Possibly a day off for the lowest servants, though black guard is normally written as two words in the sense ‘[t]he lowest class of servants in a household; the scullions and kitchen servants’ (OED s.v. blackguard n. and adj. I.1.a. Accessed 28-03-2022).
 2. The date is written vertically in the right margin.

Normalised Text


Ma chere Amie
      Mrs. Garrick hopes that You
and the Blackamoor will come here on
friday morning to breakfast at ten o'clock
, and devote the whole day to us, which
is to be a blackguard Holiday. Let us
have your answer to Night as we go to
Hampton to morrow for a day or two.
I had this book in my pocket last Night
but could not give it You. Yours ever Hannah More


                                                         Mrs. Dickenson

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 1. Possibly a day off for the lowest servants, though black guard is normally written as two words in the sense ‘[t]he lowest class of servants in a household; the scullions and kitchen servants’ (OED s.v. blackguard n. and adj. I.1.a. Accessed 28-03-2022).
 2. The date is written vertically in the right margin.

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 180

Correspondence Details

Sender: Hannah More

Place sent: unknown

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: unknown

Date sent: 20 April 1788

Letter Description

Summary: More, Hannah, 1745-1833. Autograph manuscript letter (signed) to Mary Hamilton, 1788 April 20.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 76 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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