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LWL Mss Vol. 75(83)

Note from Anne Astley to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text


Mrs Astley begs leave
to inform Mrs dickenson
with Her most respectful
Compliments (and thanks for
the kind interest she has
taken for Her) that their
Majesties have most graciously
Consider'd Mrs Astley in her
affliction[1] -- in giving Her an
appointment which will make
any further application
for Her unneceʃsary --
                                                         79

      St James Place April 21st
                             1788

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Notes


 1. Referring to the death of Mary Delany a few days before this note was written.

Normalised Text


Mrs Astley begs leave
to inform Mrs dickenson
with Her most respectful
Compliments (and thanks for
the kind interest she has
taken for Her) that their
Majesties have most graciously
Considered Mrs Astley in her
affliction -- in giving Her an
appointment which will make
any further application
for Her unnecessary --
                                                        

      St James Place April 21
                            

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 1. Referring to the death of Mary Delany a few days before this note was written.

Metadata

Library References

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University

Archive: Mrs. Delany correspondence

Item title: Note from Anne Astley to Mary Hamilton

Shelfmark: LWL Mss Vol. 75(83)

Correspondence Details

Sender: Anne Agnew (née Astley)

Place sent: London

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: unknown

Date sent: 21 April 1788

Letter Description

Summary: Note from Anne Astley to Mary Hamilton, in which Astley thanks her for the interest taken for her after Delany's death, and informs her that she was given a new appointment by the King and Queen, making "any further application for her unnecessary".
   

Length: 1 sheet, 55 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 9 April 2021)

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

Revision date: 2 November 2021

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