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MSS1 b.12 f.57

Note on behalf of Horace Walpole to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text

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[2]
                                                         14.
      Horace Walpole Ld Orford

      My dear Madam

      I was afraid I had not explained myself positively enough
that I should be happy to see you this Morning, but since
I did, I shall be equally satisfied with the first time I
can see you. I named an early hour, as my easiest
Moments, but I will confine you to none, but shall be
glad to see you when it is least inconvenient to you --
yet very sorry that you have Occasion for Dr. Turton.[3]

230 March 1792
Earl of Orford


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                                                         [6]
To
      Mrs. Dickenson[7]


Wells Street
Oxford Street
Prints color'd[8]

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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 Anson & Anson (1925: 321-322) and in Lewis (1937-83: XXXI, 368).
 3. Mary Hamilton had come to London to be treated by Dr. Turton (see Lewis 1937-83: XXXI, 368).
 4. This page is blank.
 5. This page is blank.
 6. Remains of a seal, in black wax.
 7. The address is written vertically at the top-half of the page.
 8. This annotation is written upside down at the bottom right of the page.

Normalised Text




                                                        
     

      My dear Madam

      I was afraid I had not explained myself positively enough
that I should be happy to see you this Morning, but since
I did, I shall be equally satisfied with the first time I
can see you. I named an early hour, as my easiest
Moments, but I will confine you to none, but shall be
glad to see you when it is least inconvenient to you --
yet very sorry that you have Occasion for Dr. Turton.













                                                        
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 Anson & Anson (1925: 321-322) and in Lewis (1937-83: XXXI, 368).
 3. Mary Hamilton had come to London to be treated by Dr. Turton (see Lewis 1937-83: XXXI, 368).
 4. This page is blank.
 5. This page is blank.
 6. Remains of a seal, in black wax.
 7. The address is written vertically at the top-half of the page.
 8. This annotation is written upside down at the bottom right of the page.

Metadata

Library References

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University

Archive: Horace Walpole's Correspondence

Item title: Note on behalf of Horace Walpole to Mary Hamilton

Shelfmark: MSS1 b.12 f.57

Correspondence Details

Sender: Thomas Kirkgate and Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford

Place sent: London

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: London

Date sent: 30 March 1792

Letter Description

Summary: Note on behalf of Horace Walpole to Mary Hamilton, March 1792.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 83 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: Tino Oudesluijs, editorial team (completed 15 April 2021)

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

Revision date: 2 December 2021

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