| Evidence: | '[EH having been expecting her brother back from India] Think, then, what I felt on reading in the newspaper of that ship being seen off the Cape in great distress; at length its arrival was announced, and, on Saturday last, among the list of passengers, I saw your name; but still I was not, could not be, convinced that it was really you'. |
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| Century: | 1700-1799 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Jan 1786 and 31 Dec 1786 | ||||||||||
| Country: | Scotland | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Elizabeth Hamilton |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Female |
| Date of Birth | 25 Jul 1758 |
| Socio-economic group: | Gentry |
| Occupation: | n/a |
| Religion: | Episcopalian |
| Country of origin: | Ireland |
| Country of experience: | Scotland |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | [n/a] |
| Title: | [newspaper] |
| Genre: | Ephemera |
| Form of Text: | Print: Newspaper |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 20774 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Elizabeth Hamilton | |
| Editor: | Miss Benger | |
| Title: | Memoirs of the Late Mrs Elizabeth Hamilton with a Selection from her Correspondence | |
| Place of Publication: | London | |
| Date of Publication: | 1819 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 101 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Elizabeth Hamilton, Miss Benger (ed.), Memoirs of the Late Mrs Elizabeth Hamilton with a Selection from her Correspondence (London, 1819), p. 101, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=20774, accessed: 20 April 2024 | |
| letter from EH to her brother, Charles |
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