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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": "26 December 1784" }, { "label": "Origin Place", "value": "Gerrards Cross" }, { "label": "Next", "value": "/view/AR-HAM-00001-00007-00011-00005" }, { "label": "Prev", "value": "/view/AR-HAM-00001-00007-00011-00003" }, { "label": "Script", "value": "

Hand of writer of the main text, the Duchess of Portland.<\/div>
Hand of writer of the annotations on p.1 and p.3, probably Mary Hamilton.<\/div><\/div>" }, { "label": "Language(s)", "value": "English" }, { "label": "Physical Location", "value": "John Rylands Research Institute and Library" }, { "label": "Extent", "value": "1 sheet; 263 words" }, { "label": "Classmark", "value": "HAM/1/7/11/4" }, { "label": "Destination", "value": "London" }, { "label": "Author(s) of the Record", "value": "" }, { "label": "Acknowledgements", "value": "
Transliterator: Thomas, Lauren (submitted 2014-11)<\/div>
TXT and XML encoder: Morrison, Donald Alasdair<\/div>
Cataloguer: Crawley, Lisa<\/div>
Cataloguer: Hodgson, John<\/div><\/div>" }, { "label": "Abstract", "value": "

Letter from the Duchess of Portland to Mary Hamilton, concerning general news. The Duchess writes of Hamilton's husband and of fashions in London. She also notes her incredulity that a rook was ordered to be shot [presumably by the gamekeeper on her estate] and 'a whole Colony frighten[e]d out of their wits' to stop them picking at the grains of corn, whilst the same grain was left to be 'gobbled [...] up with impunity' by 'screaming Peacocks' and other birds.<\/p>

A note written in Hamilton's hand at the top of the letter states that the Duchess Dowager of Portland and Mrs Delany [Mary Delany (née Granville) (1700-1788), English Bluestocking, artist, and letter-writer] always called Hamilton's husband, John Dickenson, the 'King of Poland \u2013 as they thought he resembled him'.<\/p>" }, { "label": "Collection", "value": "Mary Hamilton Papers" }, { "label": "Recipient(s)", "value": "Hamilton, Mary" }, { "label": "Condition", "value": "Small tear in sheet; it does not affect readability." }, { "label": "Author(s)", "value": "Cavendish Bentinck (née Harley), Margaret, Duchess of Portland" } ], "@type": "sc:Manifest", "attribution": "Provided by The University of Manchester.

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Letter from the Duchess of Portland to Mary Hamilton, concerning general news. The Duchess writes of Hamilton's husband and of fashions in London. She also notes her incredulity that a rook was ordered to be shot [presumably by the gamekeeper on her estate] and 'a whole Colony frighten[e]d out of their wits' to stop them picking at the grains of corn, whilst the same grain was left to be 'gobbled [...] up with impunity' by 'screaming Peacocks' and other birds.<\/p>

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