LWL Mss Vol. 75(29)
Note from Mary Delany to Mary Hamilton, with transcription of a poem by Delany in Hamilton's hand
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I trust I shall see my Dear
Miʃs Hamilton to morrow
Evening when I can say more
than I can see to write --
To the Queen wth a Spinning Wheel
go Happy Wheel! amuse Her leisure Hour
Whose Grace & Affability refin'd
Add Lustre to Her Dignity & Power
And fill with Love, & Awe, the Grateful Mind.
26th. Janry. 1782
London
from Mrs. Delany
To
Miʃs Hamilton[1]
red text is normalised and/or unformatted in other panel)
Normalised Text
I trust I shall see my Dear
Miss Hamilton to morrow
Evening when I can say more
than I can see to write --
To the Queen with a Spinning Wheel
go Happy Wheel! amuse Her leisure Hour
Whose Grace & Affability refin'd
Add Lustre to Her Dignity & Power
And fill with Love, & Awe, the Grateful Mind.
26th. January 1782
London
To
Miss Hamilton
quotations, spellings, uncorrected forms, split words, abbreviations, formatting)
Notes
Metadata
Library References
Repository: Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University
Archive: Mrs. Delany correspondence
Item title: Note from Mary Delany to Mary Hamilton, with transcription of a poem by Delany in Hamilton's hand
Shelfmark: LWL Mss Vol. 75(29)
Correspondence Details
Sender: formerly Pendarves), Mary Delany (née Granville
Place sent: London
Addressee: Mary Hamilton
Place received: unknown
Date sent: 26 January 1782
Letter Description
Summary: Note from Mary Delany to Mary Hamilton, expressing her trust to see her the next day. Below the note is a poem by Delany in Hamilton's hand.
Length: 1 sheet, 65 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 20 January 2021)
Copyright: Transcriptions, notes and TEI/XML © the editors
Revision date: 2 November 2021