Letter from Jane Holman to Mary Hamilton (HAM/1/4/3/8)
Letter from Jane Hamilton to Mary Hamilton. The letter updates Mary with news of her friends and family in London. Mrs Siddons's [Sarah Siddons (née Kemble) (1755-1831), famous actress, friend of Mary Hamilton] youngest child is just recovering from the smallpox inoculation. Jane reports that she has seen Siddons in the theatre twice this season – once as Belvidera in the 'Tragedy of Venice preserv'd' [Venice Preserv'd by Thomas Otway (1652-1685)], and again as Hermione in 'The Distress'd Mother' [The Distrest Mother by Ambrose Philips (1674-1749)]. Jane writes of learning Italian and speaking it now with some degree of service. The letter also relates to Mr Dickenson's health and the waters of Bath and refers to a Mr Randall, who is described as 'the most eminent Person in his business, in Bath'.
Dated at London.
Information about this document
- Physical Location: John Rylands Research Institute and Library
- Collection: Mary Hamilton Papers
- Classmark: HAM/1/4/3/8
- Title: Letter from Jane Holman to Mary Hamilton
- Language(s): English
- Author(s): Holman (née Hamilton), Jane
- Origin Place: London
- Date of Creation: 28 December 1786
- Date of Sending: 28 December 1786
- Recipient(s): Hamilton, Mary
- Destination: Bath
- Extent: 1 sheet; 662 words
- Condition: Well preserved.
- Script:Hand of writer of the main text, Jane Holman (née Hamilton).Hand of writer of the annotation at the bottom of p.3, probably Mary Hamilton.
- 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 dissertation students of Nuria Yáñez-Bouza, Department of English, French and German Philology, University of Vigo, Vigo (Spain), March 2015.
- Acknowledgements:Transliterator: Pérez-Pazo, Adriana (submitted 2015-03)TXT and XML encoder: Morrison, Donald AlasdairCataloguer: Crawley, LisaCataloguer: Hodgson, John
- Last Revised: 2023-08-18
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/1/4/3/8
- Title: Letter from Jane Holman to Mary Hamilton
- Language(s): English
- Author(s): Holman (née Hamilton), Jane
- Origin Place: London
- Date of Creation: 28 December 1786
- Date of Sending: 28 December 1786
- Recipient(s): Hamilton, Mary
- Destination: Bath
- Extent: 1 sheet; 662 words
- Condition: Well preserved.
- Script:Hand of writer of the main text, Jane Holman (née Hamilton).Hand of writer of the annotation at the bottom of p.3, probably Mary Hamilton.
- 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 dissertation students of Nuria Yáñez-Bouza, Department of English, French and German Philology, University of Vigo, Vigo (Spain), March 2015.
- Acknowledgements:Transliterator: Pérez-Pazo, Adriana (submitted 2015-03)TXT and XML encoder: Morrison, Donald AlasdairCataloguer: Crawley, LisaCataloguer: Hodgson, John
- Last Revised: 2023-08-18
