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LWL Mss Vol. 75(57)

Letter from Anne Astley to Mary Hamilton

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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


March. 84

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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)

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

Revision date: 2 November 2021

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