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Editing supervised by David Denison and Nuria Yáñez-Bouza.<\/p>" }, { "label": "Date of Creation", "value": "19 September 1782" }, { "label": "Origin Place", "value": "Kew" }, { "label": "Next", "value": "/view/AR-HAM-00001-00007-00004-00010" }, { "label": "Prev", "value": "/view/AR-HAM-00001-00007-00004-00009" }, { "label": "Script", "value": "

Hand of writer of the main text, probably John Farhill.<\/div><\/div>" }, { "label": "Language(s)", "value": "English" }, { "label": "Physical Location", "value": "John Rylands Research Institute and Library" }, { "label": "Extent", "value": "1 sheet; 369 words" }, { "label": "Classmark", "value": "HAM/1/7/6/11" }, { "label": "Destination", "value": "Windsor" }, { "label": "Author(s) of the Record", "value": "" }, { "label": "Acknowledgements", "value": "
Cataloguer: Crawley, Lisa<\/div>
Cataloguer: Hodgson, John<\/div>
Transliterator: Ulph, Cassandra (completed 2020-10-28)<\/div><\/div>" }, { "label": "Abstract", "value": "

Letter from John Farhill to Mary Hamilton. The writer is certainly Farhill (HAM/1/7/4<\/a>), though the signature has been removed. The letter relates to poetry. Farhill thanks Hamilton for her letter and for her 'elegant little copy of verse'. He describes the verses as 'neat and feminine' and details one verse that particularly interests him. He notes his differing views to Hamilton on the subject of women and writes that 'If I denied a Lady the bodily strength of a Lion or the mental powers of a Newton, I still considered her as endeared with qualities of equal estimation & in her sphere of much greater Consequence'.<\/p>

Farhill mentions that Mr Fisher has told him of Hamilton's position at Windsor and notes that 'it takes very great strength of mind to be content & great Health of Body, to endure the fatigue of it'.<\/p>" }, { "label": "Collection", "value": "Mary Hamilton Papers" }, { "label": "Recipient(s)", "value": "Hamilton, Mary" }, { "label": "Condition", "value": "A section of the sheet has been cut away which included some text." }, { "label": "Author(s)", "value": "Farhill, John" } ], "@type": "sc:Manifest", "attribution": "Provided by The University of Manchester.

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