Journal-letter from John Dickenson to his wife Mary née Hamilton. The letter relates to general news of Dickenson's visit to Oakford and his journey to Plymouth, where he visited the Rundells. He also writes about the high rates in the county. The 'rates in Devon are enormous – there are 500 County Bridges & the expen[s]e of their repairs & preservation alone is never less than [£]36,000 and frequently exceeds [£]40,000'.
Original reference No. 12.
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 MA students in the module LELA70172 Modern English Language 1500-present, Linguistics and English Language, University of Manchester, Manchester (UK), May 2016.
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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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 MA students in the module LELA70172 Modern English Language 1500-present, Linguistics and English Language, University of Manchester, Manchester (UK), May 2016.