Diplomatic Text
The Queen thinks Miʃs Hamilton
must not often have met with
such discret a Visitor as herself
having not allowed her Eyes to wander
or to gaze any further than this little
bit of Paper which she was glad to find
as it gave her an opportunity to acquiring
tell Miʃs Hamilton how gl happy
she was to hear from her Servant
that she gained strength every
Day. Appropos, my Hands were
not allowed to touch any thing.
Adieu jusqu'au revoir.
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Normalised Text
The Queen thinks Miss Hamilton
must not often have met with
such discreet a Visitor as herself
having not allowed her Eyes to wander
or to gaze any further than this little
bit of Paper which she was glad to find
as it gave her an opportunity to
tell Miss Hamilton how happy
she was to hear from her Servant
that she gained strength every
Day. Apropos, my Hands were
not allowed to touch any thing.
Adieu jusqu'au revoir.
quotations, spellings, uncorrected forms, split words, abbreviations, formatting)
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/1/1/2/10
Correspondence Details
Sender: Queen Charlotte
Place sent: unknown
Addressee: Mary Hamilton
Place received: unknown
Date sent: between 1780 and 1781
notBefore 1780 (precision: high)
notAfter 1781 (precision: high)
Letter Description
Summary: Undated note from Queen Charlotte to Mary Hamilton, in which the Queen writes that she 'thinks Miss Hamilton must not often have met with such discret [sic] a Visitor as herself', having kept her eyes solely on this scrap of paper [that the note is written on]. The Queen tells Hamilton that she was pleased to hear from her servant that she gained strength each day.
Length: 1 sheet, 79 words
Transliteration Information
Editorial declaration: First edited in the project 'Image to Text' (David Denison & Nuria Yáñez-Bouza, 2013-2019), now incorporated 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: XML version: Research Assistant funding in 2017/18 provided by the Department of Linguistics and English Language, University of Manchester.
Research assistant: Georgia Tutt, MA student, University of Manchester
Transliterator: Sam Cooper, undergraduate student, University of Manchester (submitted May 2018)
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 November 2021