Letter from ‘R’ Hamilton [probably Rachel Hamilton, the wife of Frederick Hamilton] to her brother-in-law Charles Hamilton. She thanks Charles Hamilton for a bank note of one hundred pounds which he has sent. She expresses anxiety over Charles Hamilton’s health – ' I am very much concerned to find that your old Complaint is still troublesome to you' – and mentions an invitation she has had to visit Northampton. Dated at Ipswich.
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.
Each letter in this set was transliterated by two final-year undergraduate students in the module LELA30171 Modern English Language 1500–present, Department of Linguistics and English Language, University of Manchester, Manchester (UK), November 2013.
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.
Each letter in this set was transliterated by two final-year undergraduate students in the module LELA30171 Modern English Language 1500–present, Department of Linguistics and English Language, University of Manchester, Manchester (UK), November 2013.