Diplomatic Text
My Dear Miʃs Burney
In proportion as I felt myself
flatter'd by Your having accepted my invitation,
I was disappointed in not having the pleasure
of seeing you on Thursday -- You have however
been so kind as to make me some amends
by allowing me to name another day -- if on
Friday next You are disengaged I shall
be happy to see You at ten oClock to
Breakfast -- I should have nam'd an earlier
day but I go tomorrow to Mrs. Garricks at
Hampton, & Mrs. Walsingham takes me from thence
to spend some days with her at Thames
Ditton.
I remain Dr Madm
wth. great esteem
Your Obt. Servt.
Mary Hamilton
Clarges Street
June 26th. 1783
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Normalised Text
My Dear Miss Burney
In proportion as I felt myself
flattered by Your having accepted my invitation,
I was disappointed in not having the pleasure
of seeing you on Thursday -- You have however
been so kind as to make me some amends
by allowing me to name another day -- if on
Friday next You are disengaged I shall
be happy to see You at ten o'Clock to
Breakfast -- I should have named an earlier
day but I go tomorrow to Mrs. Garricks at
Hampton, & Mrs. Walsingham takes me from thence
to spend some days with her at Thames
Ditton.
I remain Dear Madam
with great esteem
Your Obedient Servant
Mary Hamilton
Clarges Street
June 26th. 1783
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Metadata
Library References
Repository: Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library
Archive: Frances Burney d'Arblay collection of papers
Item title: Letter from Mary Hamilton to Frances Burney
Shelfmark: NYPL 526199(1)
Correspondence Details
Sender: Mary Hamilton
Place sent: London
Addressee: Frances D'Arblay (née Burney)
Place received: London (certainty: medium)
Date sent: 26 June 1783
Letter Description
Summary: Letter from Mary Hamilton to Frances Burney, June 1783.
Length: 1 sheet, 117 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: Sophie Coulombeau (submitted 5 October 2022)
Copyright: Transcriptions, notes and TEI/XML © the editors
Revision date: 26 December 2025
