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LWL Mss Vol. 75(40)

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

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Madam

my Aunt desires me to say she is happy to find that
you are willing to make one of her select cotterie,
(next Wednesday to dinner at 4 'o'Clock) who' will all be
happy with such an adition, as it is a party
in Coy my Aunt desires you not to mention
it. she begs her affectionate Compts. -- I am Madam
with the truest Respect & esteem
                             Your Obliged & Obedient Humb Sert.
                             Georgina Mary Anne Port --
St. James's Place Febry. 27th. Thursday 5 'o'Clock --
1783 --



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Madam

my Aunt desires me to say she is happy to find that
you are willing to make one of her select coterie,
(next Wednesday to dinner at 4 o'Clock) who' will all be
happy with such an addition, as it is a party
in Company my Aunt desires you not to mention
it. she begs her affectionate Compliments -- I am Madam
with the truest Respect & esteem
                             Your Obliged & Obedient Humble Servant
                             Georgina Mary Anne Port --
St. James's Place February 27th. Thursday 5 o'Clock --



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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(40)

Correspondence Details

Sender: Georgina Mary Anne Waddington (née Port)

Place sent: London

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: unknown

Date sent: 27 February 1783

Letter Description

Summary: Letter from Georgina Mary Anne Port on behalf of Mary Delany to Mary Hamilton, expressing Delany's happiness that Hamilton will join her coterie party next Wednesday.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 86 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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