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LWL Mss Vol. 75(38)

Note from Anne Astley on behalf of Mary Delany to Mary Hamilton

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                             Tuesday Morning St James Place
                                                         21st.. Janry 1783
Mrs Delany's kindest Compts to Miʃs Hamelton
and is much oblig'd to Her for the Pleasing
Entertainment the Poem gave Her last night --
and will tell Miʃs H—— more of Her mind when she
has the Pleasure of seing Her -- which she hopes
will be -- soon -- why not this afternoon -- when she will
make another Friend Happy as well as Her self --
to morrow Mrs D Expects Mrs & Miʃs Port -- which will
be a busy day with Her --


25 Jan
83
Delany
Portland
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                             Tuesday Morning St James Place
                                                        
Mrs Delany's kindest Compliments to Miss Hamelton
and is much obliged to Her for the Pleasing
Entertainment the Poem gave Her last night --
and will tell Miss Hamelton more of Her mind when she
has the Pleasure of seeing Her -- which she hopes
will be -- soon -- why not this afternoon -- when she will
make another Friend Happy as well as Her self --
to morrow Mrs Delany Expects Mrs & Miss Port -- which will
be a busy day with Her --




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Metadata

Library References

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University

Archive: Mrs. Delany correspondence

Item title: Note from Anne Astley on behalf of Mary Delany to Mary Hamilton

Shelfmark: LWL Mss Vol. 75(38)

Correspondence Details

Sender: Anne Agnew (née Astley)

Place sent: London

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: unknown

Date sent: 21 January 1783

Letter Description

Summary: Note from Anne Astley on behalf of Mary Delany to Mary Hamilton, thanking her for 'the Pleasing Entertainment the Poem gave Her last night'.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 84 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 21 January 2021)

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

Revision date: 6 December 2021

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