The Mary Hamilton Papers : Letter from Elizabeth Vesey to Caterina Jackson (née Clarke) and Isabella Clarke

Vesey (née Vesey, later Handcock), Elizabeth

The Mary Hamilton Papers

<p style='text-align: justify;'>Letter from Elizabeth Vesey to Mrs Jackson and Miss Clarke [friends of Hamilton who lived with her for a time in Clarges Street]. The letter relates to general news. Vesey wishes to awaken in both Jackson's and Clarke's memory 'those to whom you gave so much pleasure at the beloved Cottage', and notes that 'that malicious Thief Time is always pilfering something & if I let you alone any longer the idea of the Veseys wou[l]d soon fade'. Vesey looks forward to hearing from them and asks them to write something about their 'charming Miranda'. She notes that the night before there was a storm with strong winds and that a man's body was 'seen harried along by the Torrent under our Window'.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Original reference No. 10.</p>

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Letter from Elizabeth Vesey to Caterina Jackson (née Clarke) and Isabella Clarke (HAM/1/6/2/10)

Letter from Elizabeth Vesey to Mrs Jackson and Miss Clarke [friends of Hamilton who lived with her for a time in Clarges Street]. The letter relates to general news. Vesey wishes to awaken in both Jackson's and Clarke's memory 'those to whom you gave so much pleasure at the beloved Cottage', and notes that 'that malicious Thief Time is always pilfering something & if I let you alone any longer the idea of the Veseys wou[l]d soon fade'. Vesey looks forward to hearing from them and asks them to write something about their 'charming Miranda'. She notes that the night before there was a storm with strong winds and that a man's body was 'seen harried along by the Torrent under our Window'.

Original reference No. 10.

Information about this document

  • Physical Location: John Rylands Research Institute and Library
  • Collection: Mary Hamilton Papers
  • Classmark: HAM/1/6/2/10
  • Title: Letter from Elizabeth Vesey to Caterina Jackson (née Clarke) and Isabella Clarke
  • Origin Place: unknown
  • Date of Creation: between 1780 and 1786
  • Date of Sending: between 1780 and 1786
  • Destination: London
  • Language(s): English
  • Extent: 1 sheet; 409 words
  • Condition: Well preserved.
  • Script:
    Hand of writer of the main text, Elizabeth Vesey.
    Hand of unknown writer of the number at the top right of p.1.
    Hand of unknown writer of the annotation on p.1.
    Hand of writer of the annotation on p.3, probably Mary Hamilton.
  • Project Information:

    Letters first transliterated by a student as word processor files without 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 a final-year undergraduate disertation student, Department of Linguistics and English Language, University of Manchester, Manchester (UK), June 2012.

  • Acknowledgements:
    Transliterator: Gott, Andrew (submitted 2012-06)
    TXT and XML encoder: Formisano, Isabella
    XML editor: Seabra-Dacosta, Carla
    Cataloguer: Crawley, Lisa
    Cataloguer: Hodgson, John
  • Last Revised: 2023-09-04

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/1/6/2/10
    • Title: Letter from Elizabeth Vesey to Caterina Jackson (née Clarke) and Isabella Clarke
    • Origin Place: unknown
    • Date of Creation: between 1780 and 1786
    • Date of Sending: between 1780 and 1786
    • Destination: London
    • Language(s): English
    • Extent: 1 sheet; 409 words
    • Condition: Well preserved.
    • Script:
      Hand of writer of the main text, Elizabeth Vesey.
      Hand of unknown writer of the number at the top right of p.1.
      Hand of unknown writer of the annotation on p.1.
      Hand of writer of the annotation on p.3, probably Mary Hamilton.
    • Project Information:

      Letters first transliterated by a student as word processor files without 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 a final-year undergraduate disertation student, Department of Linguistics and English Language, University of Manchester, Manchester (UK), June 2012.

    • Acknowledgements:
      Transliterator: Gott, Andrew (submitted 2012-06)
      TXT and XML encoder: Formisano, Isabella
      XML editor: Seabra-Dacosta, Carla
      Cataloguer: Crawley, Lisa
      Cataloguer: Hodgson, John
    • Last Revised: 2023-09-04
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