Unlocking the Mary Hamilton papers

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LWL Mss Vol. 75(19)

Note from Mary Delany to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text

[1]
                                                         19a
      Is it poʃsible for Miʃs Hamilton to
spare any part of this Evening from 8 to 10
on her Friends in St. James's place -- if it
is she will make them happy. Mrs Delany
has a long story to tell her.
Tuesday Morning 15th May 1781
Mrs. D: has company to dine wth her or shou'd have named an Earlier hour


[2]
 ------  Hamilt[on]
[St. Ja]mes's Pa[lace][3]

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Notes


 1. This letter appears in Llanover (1862: 21).
 2. Evidence of seal in red wax.
 3. The address has been obscured by the pasting over of LWL Mss Vol. 75(20), which is therefore visible in this image, but has not been transcribed here.

Normalised Text


                                                        
      Is it possible for Miss Hamilton to
spare any part of this Evening from 8 to 10
on her Friends in St. James's place -- if it
is she will make them happy. Mrs Delany
has a long story to tell her.
Tuesday Morning
Mrs. Delany has company to dine with her or should have named an Earlier hour



 ------  Hamilton
St. James's Palace

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 1. This letter appears in Llanover (1862: 21).
 2. Evidence of seal in red wax.
 3. The address has been obscured by the pasting over of LWL Mss Vol. 75(20), which is therefore visible in this image, but has not been transcribed here.

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(19)

Correspondence Details

Sender: formerly Pendarves), Mary Delany (née Granville

Place sent: London

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: unknown

Date sent: 15 May 1781

Letter Description

Summary: Note from Mary Delany to Mary Hamilton, asking her if it is possible for her to 'spare any part of this evening from 8 to 10 on her Friends in St. James's place'.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 62 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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