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LWL Mss Vol. 75(42)

Note from Court Dewes to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text


Mr Dewes presents his Respects
to Miʃs Hamilton returns ye
Books she was so obliging as
to lend him; & if it is not
troublesome begs ye Favour
of ye other by ye same Author
she was so good as to promise
him, which he will not keep
so long as he has done these.

Cecil Street No22
FebMarch 1st. 1783.


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Normalised Text


Mr Dewes presents his Respects
to Miss Hamilton returns the
Books she was so obliging as
to lend him; & if it is not
troublesome begs the Favour
of the other by the same Author
she was so good as to promise
him, which he will not keep
so long as he has done these.

Cecil Street No22
March 1st. 1783.


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Metadata

Library References

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University

Archive: Mrs. Delany correspondence

Item title: Note from Court Dewes to Mary Hamilton

Shelfmark: LWL Mss Vol. 75(42)

Correspondence Details

Sender: Court Dewes

Place sent: London

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: unknown

Date sent: 1 March 1783

Letter Description

Summary: Note from Court Dewes to Mary Hamilton, presenting his respects to Hamilton and returning "the books she was so obliging as to lend him", and asks about "the other by the same Author".
   

Length: 1 sheet, 61 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: 2 November 2021

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