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from Honble. Wilhelmina Murray
22d. June 1785
receive my Dear Friend the sincere congratu:
:lations of my Sister and self in which Captain Murray
desires to be included. may the event that has taken
place to day, prove so Happy as We wish, and You
deserve: I speak experimentaly if You are rewarded
as I have been; You will have reason to think the
wishes of Your friends have prevailed: we beg our compts
to Mr. Dickenson and beg You will aʃsure Him
how sincerely we give him Joy, and feel interested in
Your Happineʃs: which ------ now includes His --
We go to Ockham in a few days at our return
shall certainly enquire after You: for tho' packed
up for Scotland flatter myself You will excuse the
Dreʃs and accept the personal Congratulations of
Dear Mrs. Dickenson Your Sincere & Affectionate friend
Wilhelmina Murray
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receive my Dear Friend the sincere congratulations
of my Sister and self in which Captain Murray
desires to be included. may the event that has taken
place to day, prove so Happy as We wish, and You
deserve: I speak experimentally if You are rewarded
as I have been; You will have reason to think the
wishes of Your friends have prevailed: we beg our compliments
to Mr. Dickenson and beg You will assure Him
how sincerely we give him Joy, and feel interested in
Your Happiness: which now includes His --
We go to Ockham in a few days at our return
shall certainly enquire after You: for though packed
up for Scotland flatter myself You will excuse the
Dress and accept the personal Congratulations of
Dear Mrs. Dickenson Your Sincere & Affectionate friend
Wilhelmina Murray
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Library References
Repository: John Rylands Research Institute and Library, University of Manchester
Archive: Mary Hamilton Papers
Item title: Letter from Wilhelmina Murray (née King) to Mary Hamilton
Shelfmark: HAM/1/5/2/7
Correspondence Details
Sender: Wilhelmina Murray (née King)
Place sent: London
Addressee: Mary Hamilton
Place received: London (certainty: low)
Date sent: 22 June 1785
Letter Description
Summary: Letter from Wilhelmina Murray to Mary Hamilton. She congratulates Hamilton on her marriage and wishes both her and John Dickenson happiness. Her sister and Captain Murray also desire their good wishes to be included.
Original reference No. 1.
Length: 1 sheet, 139 words
Transliteration Information
Editorial declaration: First edited in the project 'Image to Text' (David Denison & Nuria Yáñez-Bouza, 2013-2019), now incorporated 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: XML version: Research Assistant funding in 2014/15 and 2015/16 provided by the Department of Linguistics and English Language, University of Manchester.
Research assistant: Donald Alasdair Morrison, undergraduate student, University of Manchester
Transliterator: Marcus Sorton, undergraduate student, University of Manchester (submitted November 2014)
Cataloguer: Lisa Crawley, Archivist, The John Rylands Library
Cataloguer: John Hodgson, Head of Special Collections, John Rylands Research Institute and Library
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Revision date: 2 November 2021