Unlocking the Mary Hamilton papers

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HAM/1/6/1/5

Letter from Frances Evelyn Boscawen to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text


2d April

      You are very obliging
Dear Madam, & wou'd soon
have known at Your Door
that I was worthy of yr kind
Remembrance, for having heard
Yesterday with much Satisfaction
from Mrs. Delany -- & Mrs. More
that You were in Town I took
a Mem̄ of the Letter where to
find You, & promis'd myself the
Honour to wait on You the very
first Opportunity, being with great Regard
Dear Madam yr faithfull humble Servant
                                                         F. Boscawen



To
      Mrs. Dickenson

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2d April

      You are very obliging
Dear Madam, & would soon
have known at Your Door
that I was worthy of your kind
Remembrance, for having heard
Yesterday with much Satisfaction
from Mrs. Delany -- & Mrs. More
that You were in Town I took
a Memorandum of the Letter where to
find You, & promised myself the
Honour to wait on You the very
first Opportunity, being with great Regard
Dear Madam your faithful humble Servant
                                                         Frances Boscawen



To
      Mrs. Dickenson

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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 Frances Evelyn Boscawen to Mary Hamilton

Shelfmark: HAM/1/6/1/5

Correspondence Details

Sender: Frances Evelyn Boscawen (née Glanville)

Place sent: London (certainty: medium)

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: London (certainty: medium)

Date sent: between 2 April 1786 and 1788
notBefore 2 April 1786 (precision: high)
notAfter 1788 (precision: high)

Letter Description

Summary: Letter from Frances Evelyn Boscawen to Mary Hamilton. She heard that Hamilton was in London from Mrs Delany [Mary Delany, née Granville (1700-1788), other married name Pendarves, court favourite and artist] and Mrs More [Hannah More, (1745-1833), writer and philanthropist] and she took a memo of her address in the city so that she could wait upon her at 'the very first Opportunity'.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 81 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 2016/17 provided by The John Rylands Research Institute.

Research assistant: Isabella Formisano, former MA student, University of Manchester

Transliterator: Andrew Gott, dissertation student, University of Manchester (submitted June 2012)

Cataloguer: Lisa Crawley, Archivist, The John Rylands Library

Cataloguer: John Hodgson, Head of Special Collections, John Rylands Research Institute and Library

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

Revision date: 2 November 2021

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