Note on behalf of Mary Delany and note from Georgina Mary Anne Port to Mary Hamilton (LWL Mss Vol. 75(58))
Note on behalf of Mary Delany to Mary Hamilton in which she asks Hamilton how she is doing. Georgiana Mary Anne Port, who writes on behalf of Mary Delany, adds a note by herself at the end, explaining how Delany's note 'is quite a riddle' and has been dictated 'by bits and scraps'.
Information about this document
- Physical Location: Lewis Walpole Library
- Collection: Mrs. Delany correspondence
- Classmark: LWL Mss Vol. 75(58)
- Title: Note on behalf of Mary Delany and note from Georgina Mary Anne Port to Mary Hamilton
- Origin Place: unknown
- Date of Creation: 23 May 1784
- Date of Sending: 23 May 1784
- Recipient(s): Hamilton, Mary
- Destination: London
- Language(s): English
- Extent: 1 sheet; 190 words
- Condition: Part of a manuscript collection of documents by Mary Delany and others to Mary Hamilton.
- Script:Hand of writer of the main text, Georgina Mary Anne Port.Hand of writer of the signature on p.4, Mary Delany.Hand of unknown writer of the number at the top right of p.1.Hand of writer of the date at the bottom of p.4, probably Mary Hamilton.Hand of unknown writer of the date at the top of p.4.
- Project Information:
Editing supervised by David Denison and Nuria Yáñez-Bouza.
- Last Revised: 2021-11-02
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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- Physical Location: Lewis Walpole Library
- Collection: Mrs. Delany correspondence
- Classmark: LWL Mss Vol. 75(58)
- Title: Note on behalf of Mary Delany and note from Georgina Mary Anne Port to Mary Hamilton
- Origin Place: unknown
- Date of Creation: 23 May 1784
- Date of Sending: 23 May 1784
- Recipient(s): Hamilton, Mary
- Destination: London
- Language(s): English
- Extent: 1 sheet; 190 words
- Condition: Part of a manuscript collection of documents by Mary Delany and others to Mary Hamilton.
- Script:Hand of writer of the main text, Georgina Mary Anne Port.Hand of writer of the signature on p.4, Mary Delany.Hand of unknown writer of the number at the top right of p.1.Hand of writer of the date at the bottom of p.4, probably Mary Hamilton.Hand of unknown writer of the date at the top of p.4.
- Project Information:
Editing supervised by David Denison and Nuria Yáñez-Bouza.
- Last Revised: 2021-11-02
