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MSS1 b.12 f.58

Note from Horace Walpole to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text

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in his own hand
                             5 April 1792
My dear Madam

      true friends are the best restoratives to a
Convalescent; & therefore I shall always be glad to enjoy any moments
you can spare, & shall be much flattered by the honour of a Visit from
Lord Stormont. I am certainly getting better, but snails past 74,
whose Shells have been much smashed & often, do not renew them
rapidly. pray say a thousand kind things to Miʃs More, whom I
hope it will not be long before I have the pleasure of seeing.
                                                         yrs most gratefully Orford
                                                         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 Anson & Anson (1925: 322) and in Lewis (1937-83: XXXI, 368).
 3. This page is blank.

Normalised Text





                            
My dear Madam

      true friends are the best restoratives to a
Convalescent; & therefore I shall always be glad to enjoy any moments
you can spare, & shall be much flattered by the honour of a Visit from
Lord Stormont. I am certainly getting better, but snails past 74,
whose Shells have been much smashed & often, do not renew them
rapidly. pray say a thousand kind things to Miss More, whom I
hope it will not be long before I have the pleasure of seeing.
                                                         yours most gratefully Orford
                                                         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: 322) and in Lewis (1937-83: XXXI, 368).
 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.58

Correspondence Details

Sender: Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford

Place sent: unknown

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: unknown

Date sent: 5 April 1792

Letter Description

Summary: Note from Horace Walpole to Mary Hamilton, April 1792.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 93 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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