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LWL Mss Vol. 75(35)

Letter from Georgina Mary Anne Port on behalf of Mary Delany to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text

[1]
                                                         St- James's Place
                                                         June the 4th- 1782

32


      Tho' Mrs- Delany is unable with her
own hand to addreʃs her Dear Miʃs Hamilton
She cannot suffer this most important day[2] to
paʃs without felicitating her on its return --
And, to entreat that Miʃs Hamilton will follow
the dictates of her own warm & Grateful Heart
to expreʃs (with the profoundest Respect & most
Zealous affection) how much Mrs Delany wishes their Majestts
and the Princeʃs Joy of the return of this day -- [3]


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Notes


 1. A cut out paper heart containing fragments of text has been attached to the sheet.
 2. The birthday of King George III.
 3. It is not clear whether this is where the letter originally ended, or if any text is missing.
 4. This page is blank.

Normalised Text


                                                         St- James's Place
                                                         June the 4th- 1782


      Though Mrs- Delany is unable with her
own hand to address her Dear Miss Hamilton
She cannot suffer this most important day to
pass without felicitating her on its return --
And, to entreat that Miss Hamilton will follow
the dictates of her own warm & Grateful Heart
to express (with the profoundest Respect & most
Zealous affection) how much Mrs Delany wishes their Majesties
and the Princess Joy of the return of this day --


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 1. A cut out paper heart containing fragments of text has been attached to the sheet.
 2. The birthday of King George III.
 3. It is not clear whether this is where the letter originally ended, or if any text is missing.
 4. This page is blank.

Metadata

Library References

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University

Archive: Mrs. Delany correspondence

Item title: Letter from Georgina Mary Anne Port on behalf of Mary Delany to Mary Hamilton

Shelfmark: LWL Mss Vol. 75(35)

Correspondence Details

Sender: Georgina Mary Anne Waddington (née Port)

Place sent: London

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: unknown

Date sent: 4 June 1782

Letter Description

Summary: Letter from Georgina Mary Anne Port on behalf of Mary Delany to Mary Hamilton, passing on felicitations from Mary Delany, who is unable to write herself.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 81 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: Christine Wallis, editorial team (completed 20 January 2021)

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

Revision date: 6 December 2021

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