The Mary Hamilton Papers : Letter from Anna Maria Clarke to Mary Hamilton

Clarke, Anna Maria

The Mary Hamilton Papers

<p style='text-align: justify;'>Letter from Anna Maria Clarke to Mary Hamilton, concerning Mrs Hamilton, who has suffered a fall from her chair. Clarke reports that although Mrs Hamilton is 'not much disordered by it, she cannot conveniently stir out'. Clarke writes in detail of the accident and assures Hamilton that she is not seriously hurt. She also writes with more general news of acquaintances. Lady Dartrey (see <a target='_blank' class='externalLink uom-purple' href='https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/manchesteruniversity/data/gb133-ham/ham/1/11'>HAM/1/11</a>) has visited that morning and is suffering from hearing loss, which came on suddenly and which prevented her attending Court. Lady Dartrey has heard of Hamilton's illness, has written to her three times but as yet received no response.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Clarke light-heartedly reports that Mrs Hamilton is very much obliged to 'their Royal Highnesses for the honour of the very pretty Billet; the intelligence the Princess Royal has been so good as to send her' of Hamilton, which she finds very interesting, and she cannot forgive Hamilton 'for concealing it'. Although she is not 'intimately acquainted with Monsieur le Compte', the fact that her Royal Highness has given Hamilton permission to accept his marriage proposal assures her that he must be worthy.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Dated at James Street [St James's Street, London].</p>

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Letter from Anna Maria Clarke to Mary Hamilton (HAM/1/10/1/12)

Letter from Anna Maria Clarke to Mary Hamilton, concerning Mrs Hamilton, who has suffered a fall from her chair. Clarke reports that although Mrs Hamilton is 'not much disordered by it, she cannot conveniently stir out'. Clarke writes in detail of the accident and assures Hamilton that she is not seriously hurt. She also writes with more general news of acquaintances. Lady Dartrey (see HAM/1/11) has visited that morning and is suffering from hearing loss, which came on suddenly and which prevented her attending Court. Lady Dartrey has heard of Hamilton's illness, has written to her three times but as yet received no response.

Clarke light-heartedly reports that Mrs Hamilton is very much obliged to 'their Royal Highnesses for the honour of the very pretty Billet; the intelligence the Princess Royal has been so good as to send her' of Hamilton, which she finds very interesting, and she cannot forgive Hamilton 'for concealing it'. Although she is not 'intimately acquainted with Monsieur le Compte', the fact that her Royal Highness has given Hamilton permission to accept his marriage proposal assures her that he must be worthy.

Dated at James Street [St James's Street, London].

Information about this document

  • Physical Location: John Rylands Research Institute and Library
  • Collection: Mary Hamilton Papers
  • Classmark: HAM/1/10/1/12
  • Title: Letter from Anna Maria Clarke to Mary Hamilton
  • Origin Place: London
  • Date of Creation: c.1778
  • Date of Sending: c.1778
  • Recipient(s): Hamilton, Mary
  • Destination: Kew
  • Language(s): English
  • Extent: 1 sheet; 410 words
  • Condition: Small sealing tear, affecting a couple of words on p.3. A large section has been cut away from the sheet, possibly resulting in loss of an unknown amount of text on p.3, and affecting the address panel.
  • Script:
    Hand of writer of the main text, Anna Maria Clarke.
    Hand of unknown writer of the annotation on 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 LELA30171 Modern English Language 1500-present, Department of Linguistics and English Language, University of Manchester, Manchester (UK), November 2014.

  • Acknowledgements:
    Transliterator: Barrett, Connor (submitted 2014-11)
    TXT and XML encoder: Morrison, Donald Alasdair
    Cataloguer: Crawley, Lisa
    Cataloguer: 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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    Information about this document

    • Physical Location: John Rylands Research Institute and Library
    • Collection: Mary Hamilton Papers
    • Classmark: HAM/1/10/1/12
    • Title: Letter from Anna Maria Clarke to Mary Hamilton
    • Origin Place: London
    • Date of Creation: c.1778
    • Date of Sending: c.1778
    • Recipient(s): Hamilton, Mary
    • Destination: Kew
    • Language(s): English
    • Extent: 1 sheet; 410 words
    • Condition: Small sealing tear, affecting a couple of words on p.3. A large section has been cut away from the sheet, possibly resulting in loss of an unknown amount of text on p.3, and affecting the address panel.
    • Script:
      Hand of writer of the main text, Anna Maria Clarke.
      Hand of unknown writer of the annotation on 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 LELA30171 Modern English Language 1500-present, Department of Linguistics and English Language, University of Manchester, Manchester (UK), November 2014.

    • Acknowledgements:
      Transliterator: Barrett, Connor (submitted 2014-11)
      TXT and XML encoder: Morrison, Donald Alasdair
      Cataloguer: Crawley, Lisa
      Cataloguer: Hodgson, John
    • Last Revised: 2021-11-02

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