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LWL Mss Vol. 75(51)

Notes from and on behalf of Mary Delany (née Granville, formerly Pendarves) to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text


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if you are returnd safe from yr
Secret expedition when shall I See you?


I will call on you at 6 o Clock this evening -- by  ------ 
an airing --

                                                         To
                                                         Miʃs H
23 August 1784
Mrs. Delany[1]

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Normalised Text



if you are returned safe from your
Secret expedition when shall I See you?


I will call on you at 6 o'Clock this evening -- by  ------ 
an airing --

                                                         To
                                                         Miss Hamilton

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 1. This annotation is written vertically.

Metadata

Library References

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University

Archive: Mrs. Delany correspondence

Item title: Notes from and on behalf of Mary Delany (née Granville, formerly Pendarves) to Mary Hamilton

Shelfmark: LWL Mss Vol. 75(51)

Correspondence Details

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

Place sent: unknown

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: unknown

Date sent: 23 August 1784

Letter Description

Summary: Notes from and on behalf of Mary Delany to Mary Hamilton, asking her when Delany can see her again "if you are returned safe from your secret expedition".
   

Length: 1 sheet, 30 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: 22 April 2025

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