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LWL Mss Vol. 75(16)

Note from Mary Delany to Mary Hamilton

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                             St James's Place Wednesdy 11th
                                                         April 1781
                                                         16

My Dear Miʃs Hamilton as I have the truest
opinion of your goodneʃs to me, and of of the
uprightneʃs of your judgement; I venture to
submit this flower to your sentence; whether it
is to receive the highest of honours, or be condemn'd
to the station it has a better claim to? aʃsured
you will not permit me to take an improper
liberty, where, so much distance & respect are due;
and where you know I feel that mixture of
awe and admiration, which can only be felt,
but not expreʃ'd.
      The Dʃs Dowr: of Portland came on Sunday
evening just after you went away, always sorry
to miʃs you. I hope theat kind, tho short, Visit, did
you as much good, as it did your most affectionate
                                                         and much obliged
                                                         Mary Delany



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                             St James's Place Wednesday 11th
                                                        
                                                        

My Dear Miss Hamilton as I have the truest
opinion of your goodness to me, and of the
uprightness of your judgement; I venture to
submit this flower to your sentence; whether it
is to receive the highest of honours, or be condemned
to the station it has a better claim to? assured
you will not permit me to take an improper
liberty, where, so much distance & respect are due;
and where you know I feel that mixture of
awe and admiration, which can only be felt,
but not expressed.
      The Duchess Dowager of Portland came on Sunday
evening just after you went away, always sorry
to miss you. I hope that kind, though short, Visit, did
you as much good, as it did your most affectionate
                                                         and much obliged
                                                         Mary Delany



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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(16)

Correspondence Details

Sender: formerly Pendarves), Mary Delany (née Granville

Place sent: London

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: unknown

Date sent: 11 April 1781

Letter Description

Summary: Note from Mary Delany to Mary Hamilton, in which she mentions submitting a flower to Hamilton's sentence, as well as a visit by the Duchess Dowager of Portland.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 138 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 14 January 2021)

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

Revision date: 2 November 2021

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