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LWL Mss Vol. 75(45)

Note on behalf of Mary Delany to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text


42

1st. Janry 1784

      tell me how you do to day my Dear Miʃs=
=Hamilton -- I hope your goodneʃs to me yesterday
did not add to your teizing Complaint -- the
Calm delightfull Society of yesterday -- not forgeting
the Vause:Vase[1] did me more good than freezing fingers
Can Expreʃs -- I am impatient for Saturday -- Ever yours
                                                         MD


1 Janry 1784[2]
[3]

Miʃs Hamilton
Clarges
Street[4]

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Notes


 1. A second hand, probably Mary Hamilton, has struck through the original spelling and replaced it with the more modern one. Delany is presumably referring to the Portland Vase here.
 2. This annotation is written vertically.
 3. Remains of a seal, in red wax.
 4. This address has been disrupted by unfolding and now appears in two separate sections.

Normalised Text




      tell me how you do to day my Dear Miss=
=Hamilton -- I hope your goodness to me yesterday
did not add to your teasing Complaint -- the
Calm delightful Society of yesterday -- not forgetting
the Vause: did me more good than freezing fingers
Can Express -- I am impatient for Saturday -- Ever yours
                                                         Mary Delany





Miss Hamilton
Clarges
Street

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 1. A second hand, probably Mary Hamilton, has struck through the original spelling and replaced it with the more modern one. Delany is presumably referring to the Portland Vase here.
 2. This annotation is written vertically.
 3. Remains of a seal, in red wax.
 4. This address has been disrupted by unfolding and now appears in two separate sections.

Metadata

Library References

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University

Archive: Mrs. Delany correspondence

Item title: Note on behalf of Mary Delany to Mary Hamilton

Shelfmark: LWL Mss Vol. 75(45)

Correspondence Details

Sender: Anne Agnew (née Astley) and formerly Pendarves), Mary Delany (née Granville

Place sent: unknown

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: London

Date sent: 1 January 1784

Letter Description

Summary: Note on behalf of Mary Delany to Mary Hamilton, thanking her for 'her goodness' yesterday, and that she is impatient for next Saturday.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 57 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 22 January 2021)

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

Revision date: 6 December 2021

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