- Mary Hamilton Papers

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Mary Hamilton Papers

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Mary Hamilton Papers

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Mary Hamilton Papers

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Correspondence from the Dickenson Family

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Correspondence from the Dickenson Family

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Letter from Elizabeth Palombi to Mary Hamilton

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Letter from Elizabeth Palombi to Mary Hamilton

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Palombi, Elizabeth

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Palombi, Elizabeth

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1802-05-01

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1802-05-01

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Writing from Naples, Palombi notes that they are drawn nearer together by the 'general peace, as for many years we seem to have been separated more by the unhappy and dislocating war than by the alps'. (Naples had been invaded by the French Army in 1799 and there was a revolution.) Her negligence, she writes, can be attributed not only to the war but to the Revolution which she describes as 'lamentable' and which has 'pervaded & convuls[e]d all Europe... [if not] almost the whole world'. She has no doubt that people in England also suffer the effects of this, but Hamilton can have 'little idea of what weaker and more defenceless and ill-governed countries have undergone and will have to regret for many many years to come'. She continues that she will not prolong this subject in her letter as it brings forth 'the most powerful ideas' but as touched on it in an attempt to plead her case for not writing sooner. She also notes the poor post and the possibility of the interception of correspondence. Palombi notes that she has received eight guineas from England with no attached letter from her sister so she is left to guess her benefactor. The letter continues to note that now commerce has been restored to Europe she will have opportunities, although limited to smaller items, to send things over to Liverpool with 'the aid of some obliging Capt[ai]n of a ship, who can find means to get them privately on shore, without causing my friends to pay more for the duties than they are worth'. Palombi writes that she has long wished to forward a token of remembrance to Louisa, Hamilton's daughter. Taking advantage of Hamilton's soon to be visit to her sister in Birch Hall, she writes that she has quickly forwarded to Liverpool 'token[s] of remembrance' for Hamilton and her daughter Louisa including 'a piece of cold marble...from a very warm place, no less than that of the fam[e]d Mount Vesuvius'. Such specimens of lava have been 'thrown up in the time of the eruptions, so that I hope you will not dislike it'. She continues that she has also sent some ash which was found in her garden in the last major eruption and that some of the same ash was found 200 miles away at the time. Palombi ends her letter with the hope of the having the 'consolation to find, that age or infirmities make very slow progress' in her father.

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Writing from Naples, Palombi notes that they are drawn nearer together by the 'general peace, as for many years we seem to have been separated more by the unhappy and dislocating war than by the alps'. (Naples had been invaded by the French Army in 1799 and there was a revolution.) Her negligence, she writes, can be attributed not only to the war but to the Revolution which she describes as 'lamentable' and which has 'pervaded & convuls[e]d all Europe... [if not] almost the whole world'. She has no doubt that people in England also suffer the effects of this, but Hamilton can have 'little idea of what weaker and more defenceless and ill-governed countries have undergone and will have to regret for many many years to come'. She continues that she will not prolong this subject in her letter as it brings forth 'the most powerful ideas' but as touched on it in an attempt to plead her case for not writing sooner. She also notes the poor post and the possibility of the interception of correspondence. Palombi notes that she has received eight guineas from England with no attached letter from her sister so she is left to guess her benefactor. The letter continues to note that now commerce has been restored to Europe she will have opportunities, although limited to smaller items, to send things over to Liverpool with 'the aid of some obliging Capt[ai]n of a ship, who can find means to get them privately on shore, without causing my friends to pay more for the duties than they are worth'. Palombi writes that she has long wished to forward a token of remembrance to Louisa, Hamilton's daughter. Taking advantage of Hamilton's soon to be visit to her sister in Birch Hall, she writes that she has quickly forwarded to Liverpool 'token[s] of remembrance' for Hamilton and her daughter Louisa including 'a piece of cold marble...from a very warm place, no less than that of the fam[e]d Mount Vesuvius'. Such specimens of lava have been 'thrown up in the time of the eruptions, so that I hope you will not dislike it'. She continues that she has also sent some ash which was found in her garden in the last major eruption and that some of the same ash was found 200 miles away at the time. Palombi ends her letter with the hope of the having the 'consolation to find, that age or infirmities make very slow progress' in her father.

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War

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War

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Letters

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Letters

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Italy--Description and travel

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Italy--Description and travel

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Italy--Social life and customs

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Italy--Social life and customs

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