The Mary Hamilton Papers : Letter from Louisa Murray, Lady Stormont, to Mary Hamilton

Murray (née Cathcart), Louisa

The Mary Hamilton Papers

Letter from Louisa Murray, Lady Stormont, to Mary Hamilton. She writes of the delay in Hamilton's marriage and suggests it may have something to do with John Dickenson Senior. She also writes of her children and smallpox.The letter continues on Hannah More, Stormont noting that she is to write the preface to Ann Yearsley's Poems and notes that she can 'imagine her visit to the Bishop of Beauforth to have been very awful from the dignity of her manner'.Stormont ends her letter in noting her disappointment that the verses that 'Mrs D told us of only existed in Mrs Vesey's imagination'. She also asks if it is true that the 'milkwoman' [Ann Yearsley] was married against her will, that she was attached to someone else or was 'that a Vesey also?'.A note pasted onto the second sheet is transcribed as HAM/1/18/115(2).Dated at Wandsworth Hill.

Letter from Louisa Murray, Lady Stormont, to Mary Hamilton (HAM/1/18/115(1))

Letter from Louisa Murray, Lady Stormont, to Mary Hamilton. She writes of the delay in Hamilton's marriage and suggests it may have something to do with John Dickenson Senior. She also writes of her children and smallpox.

The letter continues on Hannah More, Stormont noting that she is to write the preface to Ann Yearsley's Poems and notes that she can 'imagine her visit to the Bishop of Beauforth to have been very awful from the dignity of her manner'.

Stormont ends her letter in noting her disappointment that the verses that 'Mrs D told us of only existed in Mrs Vesey's imagination'. She also asks if it is true that the 'milkwoman' [Ann Yearsley] was married against her will, that she was attached to someone else or was 'that a Vesey also?'.

A note pasted onto the second sheet is transcribed as HAM/1/18/115(2).

Dated at Wandsworth Hill.

Information about this document

Physical Location: John Rylands Research Institute and Library
Collection: Mary Hamilton Papers
Classmark: HAM/1/18/115(1)
Title: Letter from Louisa Murray, Lady Stormont, to Mary Hamilton
Author(s): Murray (née Cathcart), Louisa
Origin Place: Wandsworth
Date of Creation: 29 December 1784
Date of Sending: from 29 December 1784 to 21 March 1785
Recipient(s): Hamilton, Mary
Destination: London
Language(s): English
Extent: 2 sheets
Condition: Not stated.
Script:
Hand of writer of the main text, Louisa Murray, Lady Stormont.
Project Information:
Editing supervised by David Denison and Nuria Yáñez-Bouza.
Acknowledgements:
Cataloguer: Crawley, Lisa
Cataloguer: Hodgson, John
Last Revised: 2023-04-25

First edited 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/1/18/115(1)
Title: Letter from Louisa Murray, Lady Stormont, to Mary Hamilton
Author(s): Murray (née Cathcart), Louisa
Origin Place: Wandsworth
Date of Creation: 29 December 1784
Date of Sending: from 29 December 1784 to 21 March 1785
Recipient(s): Hamilton, Mary
Destination: London
Language(s): English
Extent: 2 sheets
Condition: Not stated.
Script:
Hand of writer of the main text, Louisa Murray, Lady Stormont.
Project Information:
Editing supervised by David Denison and Nuria Yáñez-Bouza.
Acknowledgements:
Cataloguer: Crawley, Lisa
Cataloguer: Hodgson, John
Last Revised: 2023-04-25