Diplomatic Text
[2]
My dear Madam,
I am as overjoyed as I can be, in my present
low state, at the chance of seeing you again.
I am able to dictate but very few words at
present, but I hope by the day after Tomorrow
to be able to receive you, about noon, if
you can be so very kind as to call on me
for a few minutes; My Breast being so
weak that I am not allowed to talk,
which will be a great mortification to
me, after not having had the Happineʃs
of seeing you for so long a time. But
I must now bid you adieu, tho I am as
much as ever your same,
H. W.
Recd 29th[3]
29th March
1792
From ye Earl of Orford
[4]
[5]
Mrs Daniel
48
Welbeck
Street
To
Mrs. Dickenson
No. 21
North Audley Street[6]
[7]
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, 367).
3. The date has been rewritten above the original annotation concerning the date of receipt by an unknown scribe, presumably since the original day was not very clear.
4. This page is blank.
5. This page is blank.
6. The address is written upside down.
7. Remains of a seal, in black wax.
Normalised Text
My dear Madam,
I am as overjoyed as I can be, in my present
low state, at the chance of seeing you again.
I am able to dictate but very few words at
present, but I hope by the day after Tomorrow
to be able to receive you, about noon, if
you can be so very kind as to call on me
for a few minutes; My Breast being so
weak that I am not allowed to talk,
which will be a great mortification to
me, after not having had the Happiness
of seeing you for so long a time. But
I must now bid you adieu, though I am as
much as ever your same,
Horace Walpole
To
Mrs. Dickenson
No. 21
North Audley Street
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 on behalf of Horace Walpole to Mary Hamilton
Shelfmark: MSS1 b.12 f.56
Correspondence Details
Sender: Thomas Kirkgate and Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford
Place sent: unknown
Addressee: Mary Hamilton
Place received: London
Date sent: 29 March 1792
Letter Description
Summary: Letter on behalf of Horace Walpole to Mary Hamilton, March 1792.
Length: 1 sheet, 126 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.
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