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LWL Mss Vol. 75(68)

Note from Georgina Mary Anne Port to Mary Hamilton

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60

my Dear Madam
      It is with pleasure I inform you
my Dear Aunt is better & of course her mind
easyer. Lady Gower is no more she went off
without a Groan. The Dutcheʃs is pretty
well. ever yours
                             GMAPort
21st Febry
-- 85-[1]


Miʃs Port
21st Feby -- 85[2]

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Notes


 1. Despite Hamilton's dating of this annotation, it appears from her journal letter to John Dickenson that she actually received it on the 20 February, not on the 21 (see HAM/2/15/3 p.58).
 2. This annotation is written vertically in the left-hand margin of the page.

Normalised Text



my Dear Madam
      It is with pleasure I inform you
my Dear Aunt is better & of course her mind
easier. Lady Gower is no more she went off
without a Groan. The Duchess is pretty
well. ever yours
                             Georgina Mary Anne Port



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 1. Despite Hamilton's dating of this annotation, it appears from her journal letter to John Dickenson that she actually received it on the 20 February, not on the 21 (see HAM/2/15/3 p.58).
 2. This annotation is written vertically in the left-hand margin of the page.

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(68)

Correspondence Details

Sender: Georgina Mary Anne Waddington (née Port)

Place sent: unknown

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: unknown

Date sent: 20 February 1785

Letter Description

Summary: Note from Georgina Mary Anne Port to Mary Hamilton, informing her about her aunt Mary Delany, Lady Gower [née Stewart] and the Duchess of Portland.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 43 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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