Diplomatic Text
Dr. Burney is too ʃenʃible of the value of Miʃs
Hamilton's solicitude for his daughter's health, not to be
as expeditious as poʃsible in his reply to her very kind
enquiries. He is ʃorry the acct. he has to give is not
more favourable; but though the Fever is nearly sub-
dued, yet his daughter's cough continues to torment
her, by fits, day & night, & ʃhe is ʃtill ʃo feeble as to
be little able to cope with it.
Dr. B. is very unhappy that his engagements
in very remote parts of the town will spitefully prevent
his having the honour of enquiring after the health of
Miʃs H. this morning, & of communicating this intelligence
de vive voix. He is charged by his daughter to distribute
to Miʃs H. a large portion of her love; & has great
difficulty to refrain from adding ʃome of his own to it.
St. Martin's Street
Saty. Morn'g. 11th. Feby- 1785
Dr. Burney
11 Feby 85[1]
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Normalised Text
Dr. Burney is too sensible of the value of Miss
Hamilton's solicitude for his daughter's health, not to be
as expeditious as possible in his reply to her very kind
enquiries. He is sorry the account he has to give is not
more favourable; but though the Fever is nearly subdued
, yet his daughter's cough continues to torment
her, by fits, day & night, & she is still so feeble as to
be little able to cope with it.
Dr. Burney is very unhappy that his engagements
in very remote parts of the town will spitefully prevent
his having the honour of enquiring after the health of
Miss Hamilton this morning, & of communicating this intelligence
de vive voix. He is charged by his daughter to distribute
to Miss Hamilton a large portion of her love; & has great
difficulty to refrain from adding some of his own to it.
St. Martin's Street
Saturday Morning 11th. February 1785
quotations, spellings, uncorrected forms, split words, abbreviations, formatting)
Notes
Metadata
Library References
Repository: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University
Archive: Burney family collection
Item title: Letter from Charles Burney to Mary Hamilton
Shelfmark: OSB MSS 3 Series I (Box 4 Fol. 246)(1)
Correspondence Details
Sender: Charles Burney
Place sent: London
Addressee: Mary Hamilton
Place received: London (certainty: medium)
Date sent: 11 February 1785
Letter Description
Summary: Letter from Charles Burney to Miss Hamilton, February 1785.
Length: 1 sheet, 158 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)
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Revision date: 7 April 2026
