The Mary Hamilton Papers : Letter from Rachel Hamilton (née Daniel) to Charles Hamilton

Hamilton (née Daniel), Rachel

The Mary Hamilton Papers

<p style='text-align: justify;'>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.</p>

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Letter from Rachel Hamilton (née Daniel) to Charles Hamilton (HAM/1/4/7/24)

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.

Information about this document

  • Physical Location: John Rylands Research Institute and Library
  • Collection: Mary Hamilton Papers
  • Classmark: HAM/1/4/7/24
  • Title: Letter from Rachel Hamilton (née Daniel) to Charles Hamilton
  • Language(s): English
  • Origin Place: Ipswich
  • Date of Creation: 6 July 1768
  • Date of Sending: 6 July 1768
  • Recipient(s): Hamilton, Charles
  • Destination: Northampton
  • Extent: 1 sheet; 240 words
  • Condition: Well preserved.
  • Script:
    Hand of writer of the main text, Rachel Hamilton (née Daniel).
    Hand of unknown writer of the year at the top right of p.1.
    Hand of unknown writer of the annotation in the right margin of p.2.
  • 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.

    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.

  • Acknowledgements:
    Transliterator: Bottomley, Melissa (submitted 2013-12)
    Transliterator: McMahon, Alice (submitted 2013-12)
    TXT and XML encoder: Bailey, George
    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/1/4/7/24
    • Title: Letter from Rachel Hamilton (née Daniel) to Charles Hamilton
    • Language(s): English
    • Origin Place: Ipswich
    • Date of Creation: 6 July 1768
    • Date of Sending: 6 July 1768
    • Recipient(s): Hamilton, Charles
    • Destination: Northampton
    • Extent: 1 sheet; 240 words
    • Condition: Well preserved.
    • Script:
      Hand of writer of the main text, Rachel Hamilton (née Daniel).
      Hand of unknown writer of the year at the top right of p.1.
      Hand of unknown writer of the annotation in the right margin of p.2.
    • 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.

      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.

    • Acknowledgements:
      Transliterator: Bottomley, Melissa (submitted 2013-12)
      Transliterator: McMahon, Alice (submitted 2013-12)
      TXT and XML encoder: Bailey, George
      Cataloguer: Crawley, Lisa
      Cataloguer: Hodgson, John
    • Last Revised: 2021-11-02

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