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   "value": "<p>Letters first transliterated by a student as word processor files without XML mark-up, revised by a research assistant and completed as TEI/XML files. Project supervised by David Denison and Nuria Yáñez-Bouza.<\/p><p>This set submitted by a final-year undergraduate disertation student, Department of Linguistics and English Language, University of Manchester, Manchester (UK), June 2012.<\/p>"
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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, Elizabeth Montagu.<\/div><div style='display: list-item; margin-left: 20px;'>Hand of unknown writer of the annotation on p.1.<\/div><div style='display: list-item; margin-left: 20px;'>Hand of writer of the year on p.1 and the annotation on p.3, probably Mary Hamilton.<\/div><\/div>"
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   "value": "<div style='list-style-type: disc;'><div style='display: list-item; margin-left: 20px;'>Transliterator: Gott, Andrew (submitted 2012-06)<\/div><div style='display: list-item; margin-left: 20px;'>TXT and XML encoder: Formisano, Isabella<\/div><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>"
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   "value": "<p style='text-align: justify;'>Letter from Elizabeth Montagu to John Dickenson, congratulating him and Mary Hamilton on the birth of their daughter. Montagu notes that she would have written sooner but for an eye-complaint that prevented her writing. She notes that Dickenson wishes his daughter to have the 'virtues & talents of its Mother'. She suggests that this is a 'presumpt[u]ous expectation', that such valuable traits are 'rarely hereditary', but that the 'instructions and example' that the baby will receive from her parents \u2013 rather than from 'the dullness of a Swiss [...] or the levities of a French Governess' \u2013 will provide her with the qualities they wish. Montagu asks Dickenson to send her congratulations to Hamilton and to tell her that she is sorry that she had not been able earlier to be introduced to the 'dear little Stranger'.<\/p>"
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