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LWL Mss Vol. 75(29)

Note from Mary Delany to Mary Hamilton, with transcription of a poem by Delany in Hamilton's hand

Diplomatic Text


                                                         27
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]

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Notes


 1. The address is written upside down in the centre of the page.

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

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quotations, spellings, uncorrected forms, split words, abbreviations, formatting)



 1. The address is written upside down in the centre of the page.

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

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