Single Letter

LWL Mss Vol. 75(22)(1)

Copy of letter from Mary Delany to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text

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My Dear Miʃs Hamilton
      As I have the truest opinion of
yor. goodneʃs to me, & of your upright judgement I sub-
mit
this flower to your sentence; whether it is
to receive ye. highest of Honors or be condemn'd to ye.
station it has a better claim to: aʃsured yo. will not
permit me to take an improper liberty, where, so much
distance & respect are due & where you well know I feel
that mixture of awe & admiration wch. only can be felt
but not expreʃ'd. ye. Ducheʃs Dowgr. of Portland came one
Sunday Eveg. just after you went away, always sorry
to miʃs you I hope that kind tho' short visit did you
as much good as it did yr. Affect. & much obliged
                                                         Mary Delany
St. James Place

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Notes


 1. This letter occupies the top two-thirds of the image. It is followed by Delany's message for the Queen, transcribed as LWL Mss Vol. 75(22)(2).
 2. The response to this letter (LWL Mss Vol. 75(23), copied by Hamilton) is dated 14 November 1780, hence the dating of this letter on or before that date.

Normalised Text



                                                        
My Dear Miss Hamilton
      As I have the truest opinion of
your goodness to me, & of your upright judgement I 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 & where you well know I feel
that mixture of awe & admiration which only can be felt
but not expressed. the Duchess Dowager of Portland came one
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 Affectionate & much obliged
                                                         Mary Delany
St. James Place

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 1. This letter occupies the top two-thirds of the image. It is followed by Delany's message for the Queen, transcribed as LWL Mss Vol. 75(22)(2).
 2. The response to this letter (LWL Mss Vol. 75(23), copied by Hamilton) is dated 14 November 1780, hence the dating of this letter on or before that date.

Metadata

Library References

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University

Archive: Mrs. Delany correspondence

Item title: Copy of letter from Mary Delany to Mary Hamilton

Shelfmark: LWL Mss Vol. 75(22)(1)

Correspondence Details

Sender: formerly Pendarves), Mary Delany (née Granville

Place sent: unknown

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: unknown

Date sent: not after 14 November 1780
notAfter 14 November 1780 (precision: high)

Letter Description

Summary: Copy of letter from Mary Delany to Mary Hamilton, in which Delany mentions submitting a flower [one of her paper collages] to Hamilton's 'sentence' [as to whether suitable for presentation to the Queen]. She hopes that Hamilton's visit had done Hamilton 'as much good as it did' her, and she tells Hamilton that the Duchess Dowager of Portland had just missed her on Sunday evening.
    Below is a copy of a message from Delany, transcribed as LWL Mss Vol. 75(22)(2), for Hamilton to transmit to Queen Charlotte, presumably with the flower.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 132 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 18 January 2021)

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

Revision date: 7 July 2023

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