Note from Frances Evelyn Boscawen to Mary Hamilton (HAM/1/6/1/6)
Note from Frances Evelyn Boscawen to Mary Hamilton. She hopes that Hamilton and her husband had a pleasant walk today and was sorry that she was unable to join them. She asks if they are to visit Strawberry Hill the following evening [home of Horace Walpole (1717-1797), 4th Earl of Orford, author, politician and patron of the arts] and if so she can she 'be of any Use to carry or bring back?'
Dated at Rosedale.
Information about this document
- Physical Location: John Rylands Research Institute and Library
- Collection: Mary Hamilton Papers
- Classmark: HAM/1/6/1/6
- Title: Note from Frances Evelyn Boscawen to Mary Hamilton
- Language(s): English
- Author(s): Boscawen (née Glanville), Frances Evelyn
- Origin Place: Richmond
- Date of Creation: 18 July 1788
- Date of Sending: 18 July 1788
- Recipient(s): Hamilton, Mary
- Destination: unknown
- Extent: 1 sheet; 60 words
- Condition: Not stated.
- Script:Hand of writer of the main text, Frances Evelyn Boscawen.Hand of writer of the annotations on p.1 and p.2, probably Mary Hamilton.
- Project Information:
Editing supervised by David Denison and Nuria Yáñez-Bouza.
- Acknowledgements:Cataloguer: Crawley, LisaCataloguer: Hodgson, JohnTransliterator: Oudesluijs, Tino (completed 2020-08-17)
- Last Revised: 2021-11-02
First edited 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/1/6/1/6
- Title: Note from Frances Evelyn Boscawen to Mary Hamilton
- Language(s): English
- Author(s): Boscawen (née Glanville), Frances Evelyn
- Origin Place: Richmond
- Date of Creation: 18 July 1788
- Date of Sending: 18 July 1788
- Recipient(s): Hamilton, Mary
- Destination: unknown
- Extent: 1 sheet; 60 words
- Condition: Not stated.
- Script:Hand of writer of the main text, Frances Evelyn Boscawen.Hand of writer of the annotations on p.1 and p.2, probably Mary Hamilton.
- Project Information:
Editing supervised by David Denison and Nuria Yáñez-Bouza.
- Acknowledgements:Cataloguer: Crawley, LisaCataloguer: Hodgson, JohnTransliterator: Oudesluijs, Tino (completed 2020-08-17)
- Last Revised: 2021-11-02
