Letter from Robert Keith to Mrs Mary Catherine Hamilton (née Dufresne) (HAM/1/4/7/30)
Letter from Robert Keith [possibly Sir Robert Murray, of Murrayshall (1730-1795), diplomatist and army officer] to Mrs Hamilton, concerning the death of her husband, which he had read of in the newspaper. Dated at London.
Information about this document
- Physical Location: John Rylands Research Institute and Library
- Collection: Mary Hamilton Papers
- Classmark: HAM/1/4/7/30
- Title: Letter from Robert Keith to Mrs Mary Catherine Hamilton (née Dufresne)
- Author(s): Keith, Robert
- Origin Place: London
- Date of Creation: 20 September 1771
- Date of Sending: 20 September 1771
- Recipient(s): Hamilton (née Dufresne), Mary Catherine
- Destination: Northampton
- Language(s): English
- Extent: 1 sheet; 216 words
- Condition: Page 2 functions as cover sheet with addressee's name and wax seal. Down each side is the name of the sender, Mr. Keith, and the year 1771.
- Script:Hand of writer of the main text, Robert Keith.Hand of unknown writer of the number at the top right of p.1.Hand of unknown writer of the annotation at the top centre of p.1.Hand of unknown writer of the date at the top right of p.1.Hand of unknown writer of the year in the left 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: Bailey, GeorgeTransliterator: Zhang, Rui (submitted 2013-12)TXT and XML encoder: Bailey, GeorgeCataloguer: Crawley, LisaCataloguer: 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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- Physical Location: John Rylands Research Institute and Library
- Collection: Mary Hamilton Papers
- Classmark: HAM/1/4/7/30
- Title: Letter from Robert Keith to Mrs Mary Catherine Hamilton (née Dufresne)
- Author(s): Keith, Robert
- Origin Place: London
- Date of Creation: 20 September 1771
- Date of Sending: 20 September 1771
- Recipient(s): Hamilton (née Dufresne), Mary Catherine
- Destination: Northampton
- Language(s): English
- Extent: 1 sheet; 216 words
- Condition: Page 2 functions as cover sheet with addressee's name and wax seal. Down each side is the name of the sender, Mr. Keith, and the year 1771.
- Script:Hand of writer of the main text, Robert Keith.Hand of unknown writer of the number at the top right of p.1.Hand of unknown writer of the annotation at the top centre of p.1.Hand of unknown writer of the date at the top right of p.1.Hand of unknown writer of the year in the left 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: Bailey, GeorgeTransliterator: Zhang, Rui (submitted 2013-12)TXT and XML encoder: Bailey, GeorgeCataloguer: Crawley, LisaCataloguer: Hodgson, John
- Last Revised: 2021-11-02
