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MSS1 b.12 f.47

Note from Horace Walpole to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text

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                                                         13th. April 1788
                                                         Printed
how very kind, my dear Madam, in the midst of your own
Anxiety, to think of mine! I am as much obliged to you, as
if you yourself had cured Mrs Delany; certainly recovering
I trust she is, & that you will be rewarded by enjoying her again --
but I fear you will dread London, after being received by such alarms
about her & yr Daughter, who I hope remains quite well, & that
she & you may live to Mrs Delany's age & be as much beloved.
                                                         yrs most &c HWalpole



                                                         To
                                                         Mrs Dickenson

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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, 261-262).

Normalised Text




                                                        
                                                        
how very kind, my dear Madam, in the midst of your own
Anxiety, to think of mine! I am as much obliged to you, as
if you yourself had cured Mrs Delany; certainly recovering
I trust she is, & that you will be rewarded by enjoying her again --
but I fear you will dread London, after being received by such alarms
about her & your Daughter, who I hope remains quite well, & that
she & you may live to Mrs Delany's age & be as much beloved.
                                                         yours most &c Horace Walpole



                                                         To
                                                         Mrs Dickenson

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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, 261-262).

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.47

Correspondence Details

Sender: Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford

Place sent: unknown

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: unknown

Date sent: 13 April 1788

Letter Description

Summary: Note from Horace Walpole to Mary Hamilton, April 1788.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 96 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: Christine Wallis, editorial team (completed 26 February 2021)

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

Revision date: 2 December 2021

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