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MSS1 b.12 f.43

Note from Horace Walpole to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text

[1]

[2]
                                                         Tuesday 3 o'clock
7th. June 1785.[3]
                                                         E.GA

      If Mr Walpole does not apply very improperly to
Miʃs Hamilton,[4] which perhaps he does, & shall not be quite sorry if
he does, will she be so good as to tell him one word of poor Mrs Vesey,
& when he may have leave to wait on her. He is but this moment
come to town, & therefore hopes to be pardoned, if he does any thing wrong
in giving this trouble.


                                                         Honble H Walpole
                                                         June 7th 1785

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Notes


 1. The first image is of an archival note with basic metadata, the location in the Yale Edition of Horace Walpole's correspondence, and the provenance of the document.
 2. This note appears in Lewis (1937-83: XXXI, 231).
 3. The editors of Lewis (1937-83) attribute this annotation to Mary Hamilton. However, our view is that it is a different, as-yet-unidentified hand.
 4. That is, because she may by now be Mrs Dickenson. Hamilton's marriage to John Dickenson did not in fact take place until almost a week later, on 13 June. Walpole has therefore addressed her correctly, despite his doubts.

Normalised Text




                                                         Tuesday 3 o'clock

                                                        

      If Mr Walpole does not apply very improperly to
Miss Hamilton, which perhaps he does, & shall not be quite sorry if
he does, will she be so good as to tell him one word of poor Mrs Vesey,
& when he may have leave to wait on her. He is but this moment
come to town, & therefore hopes to be pardoned, if he does any thing wrong
in giving this trouble.


                                                        

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 1. The first image is of an archival note with basic metadata, the location in the Yale Edition of Horace Walpole's correspondence, and the provenance of the document.
 2. This note appears in Lewis (1937-83: XXXI, 231).
 3. The editors of Lewis (1937-83) attribute this annotation to Mary Hamilton. However, our view is that it is a different, as-yet-unidentified hand.
 4. That is, because she may by now be Mrs Dickenson. Hamilton's marriage to John Dickenson did not in fact take place until almost a week later, on 13 June. Walpole has therefore addressed her correctly, despite his doubts.

Metadata

Library References

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University

Archive: Horace Walpole's Correspondence

Item title: Note from Horace Walpole to Mary Hamilton

Shelfmark: MSS1 b.12 f.43

Correspondence Details

Sender: Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford

Place sent: unknown

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: unknown

Date sent: 7 June 1785

Letter Description

Summary: Note from Horace Walpole to Mary Hamilton, June 1785.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 76 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: Cassandra Ulph, editorial team (completed 26 February 2021)

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

Revision date: 2 December 2021

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