The Mary Hamilton Papers : Letter from Mrs Penelope Iremonger (née Morgan) to Mary Hamilton

Iremonger (née Morgan, formerly Dunbar), Penelope

The Mary Hamilton Papers

<p style='text-align: justify;'>Letter from Mrs Penelope Iremonger to Mary Hamilton. She writes that she has received Hamilton’s own letter and that she and her husband acknowledges Hamilton’s and John Dickenson’s ‘goodness’ and assures her that they will be glad to see her and that her daughter’s company ‘will be an additional pleasure’. She hopes to see them the second week in October ‘where you will find such accommodation as a very old house can afford but a most cordial reception from all under this roof’. She asks her to write to her with the exact day and whether they are come by way of the ‘address in Sutton’ so that they can send horses to meet them. The Bishop of St Asaph and his family are in the neighbourhood and will ‘rejoice’ to see Hamilton.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>The letter continues on Lord and Lady Cremorne (<a target='_blank' class='externalLink uom-purple' href='https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/manchesteruniversity/data/gb133-ham/ham/1/11'>HAM/1/11</a>). Iremonger is happy to hear that Lady and Lord Cremorne are well and have benefited from the air and the waters of Kedleston [in Derbyshire]. Iremonger writes on Mrs Vesey (<a target='_blank' class='externalLink uom-purple' href='https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/manchesteruniversity/data/gb133-ham/ham/1/6/2'>HAM/1/6/2</a>) and on other acquaintances.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Dated at Wherwell [Andover].</p>