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MSS1 b.12 f.49

Note from Horace Walpole to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text

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                             London May 14th 15th- 1788
                                                         EGA
Dear Madam
      you ordered me to send you my print & I obey; but to
qualify it I beg you will accept the Prints of my Eagle, which are a
better memorandum of Strawberry hill & of
                                                         yr most obed.
                                                         humble Sert
                                                         HorWalpole
P.S.
I hope neither you nor Mr Dickenson
caught cold, & that you found yr Infanta
quite well. I have had a note from Lady B.


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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, 263).
 3. This page is blank.

Normalised Text




                            
                                                        
Dear Madam
      you ordered me to send you my print & I obey; but to
qualify it I beg you will accept the Prints of my Eagle, which are a
better memorandum of Strawberry hill & of
                                                         your most obedient
                                                         humble Servant
                                                         Horace Walpole
P.S.
I hope neither you nor Mr Dickenson
caught cold, & that you found your Infanta
quite well. I have had a note from Lady Browne


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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, 263).
 3. This page is blank.

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.49

Correspondence Details

Sender: Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford

Place sent: London

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: unknown

Date sent: 15 May 1788

Letter Description

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

Length: 1 sheet, 70 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 1 March 2021)

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

Revision date: 2 December 2021

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