Diplomatic Text
[2]
Strawberry hill
July 1st. 1785.
EGA
Mr Walpole begs to know if Thursday or Friday next
will be agreeable to Mrs Dickinson to dine at Strawberry hill,
when he hopes to have the pleasure of seeing Mr Dickinson too &
the two Miʃses Clarke, whom he begs Mrs Dickinson to ask, &
he will send to Mrs Garrick as soon as he knows the day. He
fears it is not proper to ask Mrs Vesey yet, or he shoud be most
happy to see Her & [3] Mrs Hancock; but he woud not propose any
thing to dear Mrs Vesey, if it is not quite right.
P.S
He directs to Miʃs Clarke's
lest the Postman not having
been at the wedding, shoud mistake
E.G.A
Mrs Vesey's Sister.
[4]
[5]
Mr. Walpole, J[uly 1st]
1785[6]
[7]
[9]
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red text is normalised and/or unformatted in other panel)
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 letter appears in Lewis (1937-83: XXXI, 232).
3. An 'x' here relates to the note by a minor hand at the bottom of the page.
4. This page is blank.
5. This page is blank.
6. This endorsement is noted in (1937-83: XXXI, 232), but the date is partially obscured in the image.
7. The envelope bears the remains of a postage mark '[IS]LEWORTH' in black ink above the address, and is crossed with the number '2' to denote postage due.
8. This address is written vertically.
9. Remains of a Bishop mark, which reads '2' and 'I(Y)', indicating the date the letter went through the post was 2 July 1785.
10. A seal in red wax remains intact.
Normalised Text
Strawberry hill
July 1st. 1785.
Mr Walpole begs to know if Thursday or Friday next
will be agreeable to Mrs Dickinson to dine at Strawberry hill,
when he hopes to have the pleasure of seeing Mr Dickinson too &
the two Misses Clarke, whom he begs Mrs Dickinson to ask, &
he will send to Mrs Garrick as soon as he knows the day. He
fears it is not proper to ask Mrs Vesey yet, or he should be most
happy to see Her & Mrs Hancock; but he would not propose any
thing to dear Mrs Vesey, if it is not quite right.
P.S
He directs to Miss Clarke's
lest the Postman not having
been at the wedding, should mistake
Mrs Dickinson
at Miss Clarke's in Clarges Street
London
quotations, spellings, uncorrected forms, split words, abbreviations, formatting)
Notes
Metadata
Library References
Repository: Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University
Archive: Horace Walpole's Correspondence
Item title: Letter from Horace Walpole to Mary Hamilton
Shelfmark: MSS1 b.12 f.44
Correspondence Details
Sender: Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford
Place sent: Twickenham
Addressee: Mary Hamilton
Place received: London
Date sent: 1 July 1785
Letter Description
Summary: Letter from Horace Walpole to Mary Hamilton, July 1785.
Length: 1 sheet, 131 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 8 March 2021)
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