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LWL Mss Vol. 75(61)

Note on behalf of Mary Delany to Mary Hamilton

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X X
                                                         [1]
I shall be quite Happy to see you and
Sir Willm Hamilton at ½ an Hour after
11 -- according to your appointment -- I am
pretty well the Dutcheʃs very well
the Day not tired for Her coming -- Lady
Bute is Just Coming in or I woud say
more -- yours in Hast
                             MD

Wednesday noon 18th. August 1784


Miʃs Hamilton[2]



Mrs. Delany
August 18th 1784
[3]

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Notes


 1. Remains of a seal, in red wax.
 2. The address line is written vertically in the middle of the page.
 3. This annotation is written upside down at the bottom of the page.

Normalised Text




                                                        
I shall be quite Happy to see you and
Sir William Hamilton at ½ an Hour after
11 -- according to your appointment -- I am
pretty well the Duchess very well
the Day not tired for Her coming -- Lady
Bute is Just Coming in or I would say
more -- yours in Haste
                             Mary Delany

Wednesday noon


Miss Hamilton



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 1. Remains of a seal, in red wax.
 2. The address line is written vertically in the middle of the page.
 3. This annotation is written upside down at the bottom of the page.

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(61)

Correspondence Details

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

Place sent: unknown

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: unknown

Date sent: 18 August 1784

Letter Description

Summary: Note on behalf of Mary Delany to Mary Hamilton, in which Delany expresses her happiness that Hamilton and Sir William Hamilton are coming to visit. Delany has to cut the note short as Lady Bute is just coming in.
   

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: Tino Oudesluijs, editorial team (completed 11 March 2021)

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

Revision date: 2 November 2021

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