Diplomatic Text
St James Place Saturday noon
March 1784
Madam, I
I can with Pleasure
inform you that Mrs Delany is much better
fromor the Loʃs of a little Blood which
Mr Young thought highly neceʃsary --
the Bishop of Winchester and His Lady
are now with Her -- but she has sent
word out that she will be most Happy
to see Miʃs Hamelton to morrow Evening --
and will settle with the Dutcheʃs of Portland
about Her Coach this -- I am Madam with
all due respect your much oblig'd Humble Sert
A Astley
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Normalised Text
St James Place Saturday noon
Madam,
I can with Pleasure
inform you that Mrs Delany is much better
for the Loss of a little Blood which
Mr Young thought highly necessary --
the Bishop of Winchester and His Lady
are now with Her -- but she has sent
word out that she will be most Happy
to see Miss Hamelton to morrow Evening --
and will settle with the Duchess of Portland
about Her Coach this -- I am Madam with
all due respect your much obliged Humble Servant
Anne Astley
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Metadata
Library References
Repository: Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University
Archive: Mrs. Delany correspondence
Item title: Letter from Anne Astley to Mary Hamilton
Shelfmark: LWL Mss Vol. 75(57)
Correspondence Details
Sender: Anne Agnew (née Astley)
Place sent: London
Addressee: Mary Hamilton
Place received: unknown
Date sent: March 1784
Letter Description
Summary: Letter from Anne Astley to Mary Hamilton, informing her about Mary Delany's health.
Length: 1 sheet, 87 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 19 January 2021)
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Revision date: 2 November 2021