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LWL Mss Vol. 75(13)

Note from Mary Delany to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text


                                                         Saturday 24th March
                                                         1781


      The Dʃs Dowager of Portland is very willing to
ansr Miʃs Hamn. summons any Thursday & shall 15
be glad to know the Day she thinks it will be that
she may examine her engagemts.       Mrs Delany's
best complimts: is pretty well hopes Miʃs Hn: is quite so


To
Miʃs Hamilton

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Normalised Text


                                                         Saturday
      The Duchess Dowager of Portland is very willing to
answer Miss Hamilton summons any Thursday & shall
be glad to know the Day she thinks it will be that
she may examine her engagements       Mrs Delany's
best compliments is pretty well hopes Miss Hamilton is quite so


To
Miss Hamilton

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Metadata

Library References

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University

Archive: Mrs. Delany correspondence

Item title: Note from Mary Delany to Mary Hamilton

Shelfmark: LWL Mss Vol. 75(13)

Correspondence Details

Sender: formerly Pendarves), Mary Delany (née Granville

Place sent: unknown

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: unknown

Date sent: 24 March 1781

Letter Description

Summary: Note from Mary Delany to Mary Hamilton, informing her that the Duchess Dowager of Portland is 'very willing to answer Miss Hamilton summons'.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 51 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: Cassandra Ulph, editorial team (completed 13 January 2021)

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

Revision date: 2 November 2021

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