Letter from Mrs Catherine Walkinshaw to Mary Hamilton (HAM/1/7/12/10)
Letter from Catherine Walkinshaw to Mary Hamilton. The letter is concerned with the health of Prince Alfred, who Walkinshaw has read in the newspapers is dangerously ill.
The newspaper cutting is dated October 1 and is concerned with William Beckford [William Thomas Beckford (1760-1844), writer and art collector, a distant relation of Hamilton's], and a ball he gave after coming of age.
Original reference No. 10.
Information about this document
- Physical Location: John Rylands Research Institute and Library
- Collection: Mary Hamilton Papers
- Classmark: HAM/1/7/12/10
- Title: Letter from Mrs Catherine Walkinshaw to Mary Hamilton
- Language(s): English
- Author(s): Walkinshaw, Catherine
- Origin Place: Hale
- Date of Creation: 1 October 1781
- Date of Sending: 1 October 1781
- Recipient(s): Hamilton, Mary
- Destination: unknown
- Extent: 2 sheets; 527 words
- Condition: There is a newspaper clipping that has been glued onto the letter on p.3. No words appear to be affected. There are two digitised copies of p.2; the second copy shows the section of the letter that appears behind the newspaper clipping. The sheets are discoloured.
- Script:Hand of writer of the main text, Mrs Catherine Walkinshaw.Hand of unknown writer of the number at the top right of p.1.
- 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.
This set submitted by final-year undergraduate students in the module LELA30172 Modern English Language 1500-present, Department of Linguistics and English Language, University of Manchester, Manchester (UK), May 2016.
- Acknowledgements:Transliterator: Sharma, Luke (submitted 2016-05)TXT and XML encoder: Formisano, IsabellaCataloguer: 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/1/7/12/10
- Title: Letter from Mrs Catherine Walkinshaw to Mary Hamilton
- Language(s): English
- Author(s): Walkinshaw, Catherine
- Origin Place: Hale
- Date of Creation: 1 October 1781
- Date of Sending: 1 October 1781
- Recipient(s): Hamilton, Mary
- Destination: unknown
- Extent: 2 sheets; 527 words
- Condition: There is a newspaper clipping that has been glued onto the letter on p.3. No words appear to be affected. There are two digitised copies of p.2; the second copy shows the section of the letter that appears behind the newspaper clipping. The sheets are discoloured.
- Script:Hand of writer of the main text, Mrs Catherine Walkinshaw.Hand of unknown writer of the number at the top right of p.1.
- 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.
This set submitted by final-year undergraduate students in the module LELA30172 Modern English Language 1500-present, Department of Linguistics and English Language, University of Manchester, Manchester (UK), May 2016.
- Acknowledgements:Transliterator: Sharma, Luke (submitted 2016-05)TXT and XML encoder: Formisano, IsabellaCataloguer: Crawley, LisaCataloguer: Hodgson, John
- Last Revised: 2021-11-02
