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   "value": "Journal-letter from John Dickenson to Mary Hamilton, with a letter from Hannah More to Mary Hamilton"
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   "value": "<p>Editing supervised by David Denison and Nuria Yáñez-Bouza.<\/p>"
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   "label": "Date of Creation",
   "value": "from 20 to 22 February 1786"
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   "value": "<div style='list-style-type: disc;'><div style='display: list-item; margin-left: 20px;'>Hand of writer of the main text of the first letter, John Dickenson.<\/div><div style='display: list-item; margin-left: 20px;'>Hand of writer of the main text of the second letter, Hannah More.<\/div><div style='display: list-item; margin-left: 20px;'>Hand of writer of the cross at the top left of p.1, probably a member of the Anson family.<\/div><div style='display: list-item; margin-left: 20px;'>Hand of unknown writer of the number at the top left of p.1.<\/div><div style='display: list-item; margin-left: 20px;'>Hand of writer of the annotation at the bottom of p.2, probably Mary Hamilton.<\/div><\/div>"
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   "value": "1 sheet; 1588 words"
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   "value": "HAM/1/2/8/1"
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   "value": "Northamptonshire"
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   "value": "<div style='list-style-type: disc;'><div style='display: list-item; margin-left: 20px;'>Cataloguer: Crawley, Lisa<\/div><div style='display: list-item; margin-left: 20px;'>Cataloguer: Hodgson, John<\/div><div style='display: list-item; margin-left: 20px;'>Transliterator: Wallis, Christine (completed 2020-07-13)<\/div><\/div>"
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   "value": "<p style='text-align: justify;'>Journal-letter from John Dickenson to his wife Mary née Hamilton covering the period 20-22 February 1786. He writes of the friends and acquaintances he meets in London including Mrs Carter and Miss Gunning and of his attending a Bas Bleu evening at Mrs Vesey\u2019s. He called on Miss Gunning in St James\u2019s and sat with her for one and a half hours \u2013 and she seemed glad to see him. He reports that she said that every time she met a \u2018certain gentleman\u2019 he always asked about Hamilton, although he was married and that a \u2018certain Lady\u2019 has ruined her \u2018reputation by taking notice of a woman who she knows lives in an open avowed state of adultery\u2019. Dickenson also met with Mrs Glover and visited Miss Goldsworthy at Queen\u2019s Lodge. He also met with Sir Joshua Reynolds and called on Dr and Frances Burney but they were not at home.<\/p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Included in the letter is a sheet written by Hannah More to Hamilton in which she talks of Horace Walpole. Dickenson had brought his unfinished letter to the party given by Mrs Vesey and invited her to write a few words on a blank page for Hamilton. More writes that she is \u2018delighted\u2019 with Hamilton\u2019s \u2018husband because he is in love with his wife\u2019. She continues that she is taking advantage of Hamilton\u2019s absence by attempting to \u2018supplant you in the heart of Mr Walpole as fast as possible\u2019. She has spent an evening with him and he wishes her to \u2018save my reputation\u2019 so she has invited Mrs Vesey and Mrs Carter to be of the party. The letter is incomplete and ends abruptly at the end of the sheet.<\/p>"
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