Unlocking the Mary Hamilton papers

Single Letter

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

Cutting by Queen Charlotte

Diplomatic Text


[1]
Late Ly A Greville[2]


[3]
cut out by ye-
Queen

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Notes


 1. This page is cut in a silhouette of a woman's head.
 2. Hamilton's cousin Lady Anne Greville died in 1783. The silhouette was probably made during her life, but Hamilton's description is added posthumously, dating the cutting as pre-1783, and the annotation as 1783 at the earliest.
 3. The silhouette seems to have been cut out of scrap paper, as it bears evidence of an earlier pencil drawing.

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 1. This page is cut in a silhouette of a woman's head.
 2. Hamilton's cousin Lady Anne Greville died in 1783. The silhouette was probably made during her life, but Hamilton's description is added posthumously, dating the cutting as pre-1783, and the annotation as 1783 at the earliest.
 3. The silhouette seems to have been cut out of scrap paper, as it bears evidence of an earlier pencil drawing.

Metadata

Library References

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

Archive: Mary Hamilton Papers

Item title: Cutting by Queen Charlotte

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

Correspondence Details

Sender: Queen Charlotte

Place sent: unknown

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: unknown

Date sent: between June 1777 and November 1782
notBefore June 1777 (precision: high)
notAfter November 1782 (precision: medium)

Letter Description

Summary: A silhouette cut out with an inscription stating that it had been cut by the Queen. This item was previously catalogued, along with HAM/1/1/2/7(1), as a single item HAM/1/1/2/7.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 0 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: 2 June 2023

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