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   "value": "<p>Editing supervised by David Denison and Nuria Yáñez-Bouza.<\/p><p>Letter first transliterated as plain text by a customised LLM trained on other letters in the archive, revised and completed as TEI/XML files by David Denison and Nuria Yáñez-Bouza.<\/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 Carter.<\/div><div style='display: list-item; margin-left: 20px;'>Hand of unknown writer of the shelfmark on the support of p.1.<\/div><div style='display: list-item; margin-left: 20px;'>Hand of writer of the year at the top of p.1, 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: Morris, Pete (submitted 2026-01-13)<\/div><div style='display: list-item; margin-left: 20px;'>Cataloguer: Salt, Bonnie B.<\/div><\/div>"
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   "value": "<p style='text-align: justify;'>Letter from Elizabeth Carter to Mary Hamilton, giving her assessment of the German novel <i>Siegwart, eine Klostergeschichte<\/i> (1776), written by Johann Martin Miller (1750-1814), which had been lent to her by Queen Charlotte. She asks Hamilton to thank the Queen. She admires the writing greatly but finds that excessive sentimentality makes it potentially dangerous for young readers.<\/p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Carter had been unable to find copies of the book in England for Charlotte Gunning or herself, and she asks Hamilton if she can help. She blames her later-than-intended return of the Queen's copy, as well as her inability to explain in English \u2018a very pretty Sonnet\u2019, on her bad headaches.<\/p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Original entry in Houghton Library catalogue: Carter, Elizabeth, 1717-1806. Autograph manuscript letter (signed) to Mary Hamilton; Clarges Street, 1780 February 14.<\/p>"
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