Unlocking the Mary Hamilton papers

Single Letter

HAM/1/1/2/7(1)

Note from Queen Charlotte to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text


William
Cel --- 

L'amitié nous uniè
Les bagatelles montrent respect[1]


Written & given to me by
The Queen

      Mary Hamilton
Queens Lodge Windsor March 1781

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Notes


 1. This passage from Queen Charlotte to Mary Hamilton is also transcribed and commented on in Archibald Edward Harbord Anson's About Others and Myself, 1745 to 1920 (1920: 16).

Normalised Text



L'amitié nous uniè
Les bagatelles montrent respect


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 1. This passage from Queen Charlotte to Mary Hamilton is also transcribed and commented on in Archibald Edward Harbord Anson's About Others and Myself, 1745 to 1920 (1920: 16).

Metadata

Library References

Repository: John Rylands Research Institute and Library, University of Manchester

Archive: Mary Hamilton Papers

Item title: Note from Queen Charlotte to Mary Hamilton

Shelfmark: HAM/1/1/2/7(1)

Correspondence Details

Sender: Queen Charlotte

Place sent: Windsor

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: Windsor

Date sent: March 1781

Letter Description

Summary: A note by Mary Hamilton with the following text: 'written & given to me by the Queen'. The other side of the note includes a sentence written in French. This was originally catalogued, along with HAM/1/1/2/7(2), as a single item HAM/1/1/2/7.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 7 words

Transliteration Information

Editorial declaration: 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).

All quotation marks are retained in the text and are represented by appropriate Unicode characters. Words split across two lines may have a hyphen on the first, the second or both fragments (reco-|ver, imperfect|-ly, satisfacti-|-on); or a double hyphen (pur=|port, dan|=ger, qua=|=litys); or none (respect|ing). Any point in abbreviations with superscripted letter(s) is placed last, regardless of relative left-right orientation in the original. Thus, Mrs. or Mrs may occur, but M.rs or Mr.s do not.

Acknowledgements: Transcription and XML version created as part of project 'Unlocking the Mary Hamilton Papers', funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council under grant AH/S007121/1.

Transliterator: Cassandra Ulph, editorial team (completed 23 October 2020)

Cataloguer: Lisa Crawley, Archivist, The John Rylands Library

Cataloguer: John Hodgson, Head of Special Collections, John Rylands Research Institute and Library

Copyright: Transcriptions, notes and TEI/XML © the editors

Revision date: 28 April 2023

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