Unlocking the Mary Hamilton papers

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MS Eng 1778 182

Letter from Hannah More to John Dickenson

Diplomatic Text


Dear Sir


      The shortneʃs of the
moment which the Post allows, only leaves me
time to say how much I am rejoyced at
the improved state of your health! -- How glad
I am of your proposed migration hither! -- That
the Castle gates shall be thrown open to
hail the approach of so renown'd a Knight! --
that you will receive a cordial Welcome
on Saturday from the Inhabitants of Cowslip
Green, particularly from her who is truly
                             Your faithful and obliged
                                                         Han: More
Cowslip Green
22 July -- 1789



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                             To
John Dickenson Esq[4]
      No. 18 Queen Square
                             Bath

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Notes


 1. This page is blank.
 2. This page is blank.
 3. Remains of a seal, in red wax, above and below the address.
 4. A large ‘2’ is written next to the address, indicating postage due.

Normalised Text


Dear Sir


      The shortness of the
moment which the Post allows, only leaves me
time to say how much I am rejoiced at
the improved state of your health! -- How glad
I am of your proposed migration hither! -- That
the Castle gates shall be thrown open to
hail the approach of so renowned a Knight! --
that you will receive a cordial Welcome
on Saturday from the Inhabitants of Cowslip
Green, particularly from her who is truly
                             Your faithful and obliged
                                                         Hannah More
Cowslip Green
22 July --














                             To
John Dickenson Esq
      No. 18 Queen Square
                             Bath

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quotations, spellings, uncorrected forms, split words, abbreviations, formatting)



 1. This page is blank.
 2. This page is blank.
 3. Remains of a seal, in red wax, above and below the address.
 4. A large ‘2’ is written next to the address, indicating postage due.

Metadata

Library References

Repository: Houghton Library Repository, Harvard University

Archive: Elizabeth Carter and Hannah More letters to Mary Hamilton

Item title: Letter from Hannah More to John Dickenson

Shelfmark: MS Eng 1778 182

Correspondence Details

Sender: Hannah More

Place sent: Wrington

Addressee: John Dickenson

Place received: Bath

Date sent: 22 July 1789

Letter Description

Summary: More, Hannah, 1745-1833. Autograph manuscript letter (signed) to John Dickenson; Cowslip Green, 1789 July 22.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 95 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: 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: (submitted 27 May 2021)

Cataloguer: Bonnie B. Salt, Archivist, Houghton Library

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

Revision date: 1 November 2022

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