Unlocking the Mary Hamilton papers

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MSS1 b.12 f.50

Note from Horace Walpole to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text

[1]

[2]
                                                         Berkeley Square
                                                         June 11th. 1788.

Dear Madam

      if you & Mr Dickenson like to
see the Play at Richmond house on Saturday
next, I have asked Gen. Conway for tickets
for you both, & he has promised me them. It
will be the last performance this year. Be
so good as to let me know before dinner, if
you shoud not be at home when I send this.
                                                         yr most obed. Sert
                                                         HorWalpole
      F


Honble
Horace Walpole
June 1788[3]

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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 letter appears in Lewis (1937-83: XXXI, 263-264).
 3. This annotation is written upside down at the bottom of the sheet.

Normalised Text




                                                         Berkeley Square
                                                         June 11th. 1788.

Dear Madam

      if you & Mr Dickenson like to
see the Play at Richmond house on Saturday
next, I have asked General Conway for tickets
for you both, & he has promised me them. It
will be the last performance this year. Be
so good as to let me know before dinner, if
you should not be at home when I send this.
                                                         your most obedient Servant
                                                         Horace Walpole



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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 letter appears in Lewis (1937-83: XXXI, 263-264).
 3. This annotation is written upside down at the bottom of the sheet.

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.50

Correspondence Details

Sender: Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford

Place sent: London

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: unknown

Date sent: 11 June 1788

Letter Description

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

Length: 1 sheet, 74 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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