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LWL Mss Vol. 75(50)

Note from Georgina Mary Anne Port to Mary Hamilton

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                                                         26th May 1784
my Dr. Madam
      AD is pretty well thanks you
a Thousand times for your kind inquiries: -- she has
been at the Abbey to day -- much Charmed -- begs her
Love to you the Dr. Dʃs is pretty well did not go to day
excuse all faults ever yours GMAPort


                                                         Miʃs Hamil[ton]

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26 May 84[2]

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 1. Remains of a seal, in red wax.
 2. This annotation is written vertically.

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                                                         26th May 1784
my Dear Madam
      Aunt Delany is pretty well thanks you
a Thousand times for your kind inquiries: -- she has
been at the Abbey to day -- much Charmed -- begs her
Love to you the Dowager Duchess is pretty well did not go to day
excuse all faults ever yours Georgina Mary Anne Port


                                                         Miss Hamilton


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 1. Remains of a seal, in red wax.
 2. This annotation is written vertically.

Metadata

Library References

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University

Archive: Mrs. Delany correspondence

Item title: Note from Georgina Mary Anne Port to Mary Hamilton

Shelfmark: LWL Mss Vol. 75(50)

Correspondence Details

Sender: Georgina Mary Anne Waddington (née Port)

Place sent: unknown

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: unknown

Date sent: 26 May 1784

Letter Description

Summary: Note from Georgina Mary Anne Port to Mary Hamilton, informing her that her aunt Mary Delany and the Duchess of Portland are both well, and that Delany went to the abbey.
   

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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