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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>

This set submitted by final-year undergraduate students in the module LELA30171 Modern English Language 1500-present, Department of Linguistics and English Language, University of Manchester, Manchester (UK), November 2014.<\/p>" }, { "label": "Date of Creation", "value": "15 September 1807" }, { "label": "Origin Place", "value": "Wolverton, Buckinghamshire" }, { "label": "Next", "value": "/view/AR-HAM-00001-00005-00001-00002" }, { "label": "Script", "value": "

Hand of writer of the main text, Reverend Archibald Hamilton Cathcart.<\/div><\/div>" }, { "label": "Language(s)", "value": "English" }, { "label": "Physical Location", "value": "John Rylands Research Institute and Library" }, { "label": "Extent", "value": "1 sheet; 207 words" }, { "label": "Classmark", "value": "HAM/1/5/1/1" }, { "label": "Destination", "value": "Leighton Buzzard" }, { "label": "Author(s) of the Record", "value": "" }, { "label": "Acknowledgements", "value": "
Transliterator: Barker, Hollie (submitted 2014-11)<\/div>
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Letter from Rev. Hon. Archibald Hamilton Cathcart to Mary Hamilton. The letter conveys general family news. Cathcart is to visit Hamilton next month and he reports that his brother has finished 'the difficult business' and 'with a hand so masterly that History will perpetuate the recollection of it'.<\/p>

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