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   "value": "Letters from Mary Hamilton to Barbara Evelyn Isabella ('Bell') Gunning and Charlotte Margaret Gunning (later Digby)"
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   "value": "<p>Editing supervised by David Denison and Nuria Yáñez-Bouza.<\/p>"
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   "value": "14 November 1779 and 27 August 1783"
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   "value": "<div style='list-style-type: disc;'><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;'>Two letters from Mary Hamilton to Isabella and Charlotte Gunning. The first letter, directed in a frank to Charlotte but almost certainly intended for Isabella, is dated 27 August 1783. It concerns Charlotte Gunning's health and news of Sir William and Lady Wake.<\/p><p style='text-align: justify;'>The second letter is incorrectly dated November 1789 for 1779. This incomplete letter to Charlotte Gunning relates to the unwanted attentions of a suitor [possibly a Mr Bourdieu who proposed marriage to her]. Hamilton writes that \u2018little fool B has offer[e]d that great fool of a woman 100 Guineas to procure a small lock of my Hair \u2013 my answer was, That provided he W[ou]ld cut off his hair he should have the combings of mine\u2019 which her maid \u2018might give him to make a little bob wig & to be worn without powder\u2019. She notes that he wrote a letter from \u2018Babel\u2019 to enquire after her. She is anxious that he used her full name in the note and that \u2018from his manner of talking & writing about me \u2013 any person that did not know me might imagine I encouraged it\u2019.<\/p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Original reference No. 23.<\/p>"
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