Letter from John Dickenson to his wife Mary née Hamilton. He writes of his love for Hamilton and describes her as the 'Best of wives'.
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Physical Location: John Rylands Research Institute and Library
Collection: Mary Hamilton Papers
Classmark: HAM/1/2/40
Title: Letter from John Dickenson to Mary Hamilton
Date of Creation: 5 February 1800
Date of Sending: 5 February 1800
Language(s): English
Extent: 1 sheet; 182 words
Condition: The sheet has been torn in half.
Script: Hand of writer of the main text, John Dickenson.
Hand of unknown writer of the cross at the top left of p.1.
Hand of writer of the annotation on p.3, probably a member of the Anson family.
Hand of unknown writer of the number above the annotation on p.3.
Project Information: Editing supervised by David Denison and Nuria Yáñez-Bouza.
Acknowledgements: Cataloguer: Crawley, Lisa
Cataloguer: Hodgson, John
Transliterator: Wallis, Christine (completed 2020-07-21)
Last Revised: 2021-11-02
First edited 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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