Journal-letter from John Dickenson to Mary Hamilton (HAM/1/2/18)
Journal-letter from John Dickenson to his wife Mary née Hamilton covering the period 27 June – 2 July 1789. The letter relates to Dickenson's time at Bath and to his social life whilst in the city, including a visit to a Mrs Holroyd, who he notes had a painting of Lord Sheffield [John Baker Holroyd (1741-1821), first Earl of Sheffield, politician] by Sir Joshua Reynolds, which he writes was really 'a treat' to see, as he 'never saw a picture of any Master's that pleased me more – how happy I sh[oul]d be to have such a picture of the dear Object of my Love'.
Original reference No. 4.
Information about this document
- Physical Location: John Rylands Research Institute and Library
- Collection: Mary Hamilton Papers
- Classmark: HAM/1/2/18
- Title: Journal-letter from John Dickenson to Mary Hamilton
- Language(s): English
- Author(s): Dickenson, John
- Origin Place: Bath
- Date of Creation: from 27 June to 2 July 1789
- Date of Sending: 2 July 1789
- Recipient(s): Hamilton, Mary
- Destination: Taxal, near Chapel-en-le-Frith
- Extent: 1 sheet; 1942 words
- Condition: Well preserved.
- Script:Hand of writer of the main text, John Dickenson.Hand of unknown writer of the number at the top right of p.1.
- Project Information:
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.
This set submitted by final-year undergraduate students in the module LELA30172 Modern English Language 1500-present, Department of Linguistics and English Language, University of Manchester, Manchester (UK), May 2018.
- Acknowledgements:Transliterator: García Maquieira, Ana (submitted 2018-05)TXT and XML encoder: Tutt, GeorgiaCataloguer: Crawley, LisaCataloguer: Hodgson, John
- Last Revised: 2021-11-02
First edited in the project 'Image to Text' (David Denison & Nuria Yáñez-Bouza, 2013-2019), now incorporated in the project 'Unlocking the Mary Hamilton Papers' (Hannah Barker, Sophie Coulombeau, David Denison, Tino Oudesluijs, Cassandra Ulph, Christine Wallis & Nuria Yáñez-Bouza, 2019-2023).
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- Physical Location: John Rylands Research Institute and Library
- Collection: Mary Hamilton Papers
- Classmark: HAM/1/2/18
- Title: Journal-letter from John Dickenson to Mary Hamilton
- Language(s): English
- Author(s): Dickenson, John
- Origin Place: Bath
- Date of Creation: from 27 June to 2 July 1789
- Date of Sending: 2 July 1789
- Recipient(s): Hamilton, Mary
- Destination: Taxal, near Chapel-en-le-Frith
- Extent: 1 sheet; 1942 words
- Condition: Well preserved.
- Script:Hand of writer of the main text, John Dickenson.Hand of unknown writer of the number at the top right of p.1.
- Project Information:
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.
This set submitted by final-year undergraduate students in the module LELA30172 Modern English Language 1500-present, Department of Linguistics and English Language, University of Manchester, Manchester (UK), May 2018.
- Acknowledgements:Transliterator: García Maquieira, Ana (submitted 2018-05)TXT and XML encoder: Tutt, GeorgiaCataloguer: Crawley, LisaCataloguer: Hodgson, John
- Last Revised: 2021-11-02
