Diplomatic Text
My Dear Madam
I am according to your request, happy to
report to you progreʃs, as I can aʃsure you of continued good
Accts: from hence. Lady M: continues daily recovery &
the Little One is quite well --
She joins me in very sincere thanks for your kind
congratulations & cordial good Wishes, on this late &
comfortable addition to our Family.
I sent your Letter to My Sister immediately on receipt.
She is well at present excepting a slight cold with
which most have been more or leʃs plagued lately.
I should have requested kind Compts. from hence
to Mr. Dickenson had you not informed me He was
from home & not speedily expected --
I am
My Dear Madam
Your very Sincere & Faithful
Humble Servant
Robt: F: Greville
London January Thirteen 1800
Mrs: Dickenson[1]
Leighton House
Leighton Buzzard
free
RF Greville[2] Beds:
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Normalised Text
My Dear Madam
I am according to your request, happy to
report to you progress, as I can assure you of continued good
Accounts from hence. Lady Mansfield continues daily recovery &
the Little One is quite well --
She joins me in very sincere thanks for your kind
congratulations & cordial good Wishes, on this late &
comfortable addition to our Family.
I sent your Letter to My Sister immediately on receipt.
She is well at present excepting a slight cold with
which most have been more or less plagued lately.
I should have requested kind Compliments from hence
to Mr. Dickenson had you not informed me He was
from home & not speedily expected --
I am
My Dear Madam
Your very Sincere & Faithful
Humble Servant
Robert Fulke Greville
London January Thirteen 1800
Mrs: Dickenson
Leighton House
Leighton Buzzard
free
Robert Fulke Greville Bedfordshire
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Metadata
Library References
Repository: John Rylands Research Institute and Library, University of Manchester
Archive: Mary Hamilton Papers
Item title: Letter from Robert Fulke Greville to Mary Hamilton
Shelfmark: HAM/1/5/3/5
Correspondence Details
Sender: Robert Fulke Greville
Place sent: London
Addressee: Mary Hamilton
Place received: Leighton Buzzard
Date sent: 13 January 1800
Letter Description
Summary: Letter from Robert Fulke Greville to Mary Hamilton, updating her on the health of his wife and new baby.
Length: 1 sheet, 150 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: Connor Barrett, 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