The Mary Hamilton Papers : Journal-letter from Anna Maria Clarke to Mary Hamilton
Clarke, Anna Maria
The Mary Hamilton Papers
<p style='text-align: justify;'>Journal-letter from Anna Maria Clarke to [Mary Hamilton], conveying general news of a number of friends and acquaintances including Mrs Carter, Lady Cremorne, Lady Wake, the Queen and the Princesses, Sir William Hamilton, Mrs Vesey and Horace Walpole. Clarke comments on her own robust health, passes on Mrs Glover's recommendation of 'cold bathing' for Hamilton's daughter Louisa, and declares Louisa Dickenson to be among the 'fairest ornaments' of Taxal.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>On internal evidence this undated, incomplete letter is very likely from the first half of May 1789.</p>