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LWL Mss Vol. 75(84)

Note from Anne Astley to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text


Mrs Astleys most respectful
Compliments to Mrs dickenson
and begs she will not mention
to any body what she
informd Her of yesterday
relating to their Majesties
kind intentions[1] -- as Mrs
Astley has some reason to
think she ought not as
yet to have made it known --


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      St James Place April 23 --
                                                         1788

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Notes


 1. This is possibly referring to the news that the King and Queen gave Astley an appointment (see LWL MSS Vol.75 (item 83)), although that does not exactly fit the chronology implied here.

Normalised Text


Mrs Astleys most respectful
Compliments to Mrs dickenson
and begs she will not mention
to any body what she
informed Her of yesterday
relating to their Majesties
kind intentions -- as Mrs
Astley has some reason to
think she ought not as
yet to have made it known --


                                                        
      St James Place April 23 --
                                                         1788

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 1. This is possibly referring to the news that the King and Queen gave Astley an appointment (see LWL MSS Vol.75 (item 83)), although that does not exactly fit the chronology implied here.

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(84)

Correspondence Details

Sender: Anne Agnew (née Astley)

Place sent: London

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: unknown

Date sent: 23 April 1788

Letter Description

Summary: Note from Anne Astley to Mary Hamilton, asking her not to mention to anyone what she said to her yesterday "relating to their Majesties kind intentions", since Astley "has some reason to think she ought not as yet to have made it known".
   

Length: 1 sheet, 53 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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