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Letters first transliterated by individual students as TXT files with partial XML mark-up, revised by a research assistant and completed as TEI/XML files. Project supervised by David Denison and Nuria Yáñez-Bouza.<\/p>

Each letter in this set was transliterated by two final-year undergraduate students in the module LELA30171 Modern English Language 1500\u2013present, Department of Linguistics and English Language, University of Manchester, Manchester (UK), November 2013.<\/p>" }, { "label": "Date of Creation", "value": "27 December 1791" }, { "label": "Origin Place", "value": "London" }, { "label": "Next", "value": "/view/AR-HAM-00001-00004-00001-00037" }, { "label": "Prev", "value": "/view/AR-HAM-00001-00004-00001-00035" }, { "label": "Script", "value": "

Hand of writer of the main text, Frederick Hamilton.<\/div>
Hand of unknown writer of the date at the top right of p.1.<\/div><\/div>" }, { "label": "Language(s)", "value": "English" }, { "label": "Physical Location", "value": "John Rylands Research Institute and Library" }, { "label": "Extent", "value": "1 sheet; 695 words" }, { "label": "Classmark", "value": "HAM/1/4/1/36" }, { "label": "Destination", "value": "unknown" }, { "label": "Author(s) of the Record", "value": "" }, { "label": "Acknowledgements", "value": "
Transliterator: Broadbent, Faye (submitted 2013-12)<\/div>
Transliterator: Nasim, Umara (submitted 2013-12)<\/div>
TXT and XML encoder: Bailey, George<\/div>
Cataloguer: Crawley, Lisa<\/div>
Cataloguer: Hodgson, John<\/div><\/div>" }, { "label": "Abstract", "value": "

Letter from Rev. Frederick Hamilton to Mary Hamilton. The letter relates to the conduct of Robert Hamilton and his father's hopes for his future improvement. He expresses his gratitude to Mary and her husband for hosting his son Robert at Taxal; Robert has commented in his letters on the 'attention & civilities' he is receiving from them. However, Frederick warns: 'In a few months more he will enter upon a new state & be solely responsible for his own conduct & engagements; if he adopts an honest manly part I shall be really happy & there will be an union in our interests, but shou'd he pursue a contrary line, all confidence between us will be at an end, & his plea of being my Son will have no weight when he has no other recommendation to enforce it'.<\/p>

Frederick also reports that he has leased a house in Portman Square and has expended considerable sums in repairing and furnishing it. However, because a debtor has delayed the repayment of a bond due to him, he has has been obliged to defer payment of some of tradesmen's bills.<\/p>" }, { "label": "Collection", "value": "Mary Hamilton Papers" }, { "label": "Recipient(s)", "value": "Hamilton, Mary" }, { "label": "Condition", "value": "The letter is fragile; there are a few ink stains and small tears, but nothing that severely affects readability." }, { "label": "Author(s)", "value": "Hamilton, Frederick" } ], "@type": "sc:Manifest", "attribution": "Provided by The University of Manchester.

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