The Mary Hamilton Papers : Letter from Frederick Hamilton to Mary Hamilton

Hamilton, Frederick

The Mary Hamilton Papers

Letter from Rev. Frederick Hamilton to Mary Hamilton. He writes to Mary assuring her of his regard for her, and regrets that he missed seeing her when he travelled to Northampton. He has heard from Lord Dartr[e]y (see <a target='_blank' class='externalLink uom-purple' href='https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/manchesteruniversity/data/gb133-ham/ham/1/11'>HAM/1/11</a>) that she is to be of his party to Spa (see Diary HAM/2/1). He notes that his niece has no more 'zealous [a] friend than' Dartrey, and suggests she should rely upon his judgement if need be.The letter refers to a previous letter that Hamilton had sent to her uncle, which noted her being in some danger. The Reverend Hamilton hopes that she has 'not suffer[e]d by the frights for I know you have weak nerves'. Moving on to his own daughter, he describes her as handsome and as having many accomplishments, though he wishes she also had more of Hamilton's 'steadiness'.Frederick Hamilton writes that he is to travel to Dublin shortly, where he has taken a house for one year, and intends to spend two or three months in his living in the North. He complains that he has never received assistance from friends and that it is 'owing entirely to L[or]d Abercorn [a family member] that I am reduced to this disagreeable necessity, which I shou[l]d by no means have yielded to were it not from the attention due on my part to my children'. Dated at Bath.

Letter from Frederick Hamilton to Mary Hamilton (HAM/1/4/1/1)

Letter from Rev. Frederick Hamilton to Mary Hamilton. He writes to Mary assuring her of his regard for her, and regrets that he missed seeing her when he travelled to Northampton. He has heard from Lord Dartr[e]y (see HAM/1/11) that she is to be of his party to Spa (see Diary HAM/2/1). He notes that his niece has no more 'zealous [a] friend than' Dartrey, and suggests she should rely upon his judgement if need be.

The letter refers to a previous letter that Hamilton had sent to her uncle, which noted her being in some danger. The Reverend Hamilton hopes that she has 'not suffer[e]d by the frights for I know you have weak nerves'. Moving on to his own daughter, he describes her as handsome and as having many accomplishments, though he wishes she also had more of Hamilton's 'steadiness'.

Frederick Hamilton writes that he is to travel to Dublin shortly, where he has taken a house for one year, and intends to spend two or three months in his living in the North. He complains that he has never received assistance from friends and that it is 'owing entirely to L[or]d Abercorn [a family member] that I am reduced to this disagreeable necessity, which I shou[l]d by no means have yielded to were it not from the attention due on my part to my children'. Dated at Bath.

Information about this document

Physical Location: John Rylands Research Institute and Library
Collection: Mary Hamilton Papers
Classmark: HAM/1/4/1/1
Title: Letter from Frederick Hamilton to Mary Hamilton
Language(s): English
Author(s): Hamilton, Frederick
Origin Place: Bath
Date of Creation: 11 May 1776
Date of Sending: 11 May 1776
Recipient(s): Hamilton, Mary
Destination: unknown
Extent: 1 sheet; 435 words
Condition: Well preserved.
Script:
Hand of writer of the main text, Frederick Hamilton.
Hand of unknown writer of the annotation on p.1.
Hand of unknown writer of the year at the top 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 an MA student in the module LELA70172 Modern English Language 1500-present, Linguistics and English Language, University of Manchester, Manchester (UK), May 2018.
Acknowledgements:
Transliterator: Tutt, Georgia
TXT and XML encoder: Tutt, Georgia
Cataloguer: Crawley, Lisa
Cataloguer: 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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Information about this document

Physical Location: John Rylands Research Institute and Library
Collection: Mary Hamilton Papers
Classmark: HAM/1/4/1/1
Title: Letter from Frederick Hamilton to Mary Hamilton
Language(s): English
Author(s): Hamilton, Frederick
Origin Place: Bath
Date of Creation: 11 May 1776
Date of Sending: 11 May 1776
Recipient(s): Hamilton, Mary
Destination: unknown
Extent: 1 sheet; 435 words
Condition: Well preserved.
Script:
Hand of writer of the main text, Frederick Hamilton.
Hand of unknown writer of the annotation on p.1.
Hand of unknown writer of the year at the top 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 an MA student in the module LELA70172 Modern English Language 1500-present, Linguistics and English Language, University of Manchester, Manchester (UK), May 2018.
Acknowledgements:
Transliterator: Tutt, Georgia
TXT and XML encoder: Tutt, Georgia
Cataloguer: Crawley, Lisa
Cataloguer: Hodgson, John
Last Revised: 2021-11-02