Diplomatic Text
Madam,
I am very sorry that you did
not sleep well last Night, I beg
you will lay d --- own & then not think
of any thing but of a flock of
Sheep, & if you do not do thatdo that I shall
Not love you in the least, & I
know that you will be very sorry
for that, & if you do what I desire
I will love you very much.
Madam
your Friend.
Charlotte Augusta Matilda
January 13th,, 1778.
To
Miʃs Hamilton[1]
red text is normalised and/or unformatted in other panel)
Normalised Text
Madam,
I am very sorry that you did
not sleep well last Night, I beg
you will lay down & then not think
of any thing but of a flock of
Sheep, & if you do not do that I shall
Not love you in the least, & I
know that you will be very sorry
for that, & if you do what I desire
I will love you very much.
Madam
your Friend.
Charlotte Augusta Matilda
January 13th,, 1778.
To
Miss Hamilton
quotations, spellings, uncorrected forms, split words, abbreviations, formatting)
Notes
Metadata
Library References
Repository: John Rylands Research Institute and Library, University of Manchester
Archive: Mary Hamilton Papers
Item title: Letter from Charlotte, Princess Royal, to Mary Hamilton
Shelfmark: HAM/1/1/5/2
Correspondence Details
Sender: Charlotte Augusta Matilda, Princess Royal
Place sent: to be determined
Addressee: Mary Hamilton
Place received: London (certainty: medium)
Date sent: 13 January 1778
Letter Description
Summary: Letter from Charlotte, Princess Royal, to Mary Hamilton. She is sorry that Hamilton did not sleep well the previous night and suggests she lays down and thinks of nothing but a flock of sheep. If she does not do this then Charlotte will not love her any more and Hamilton 'would be very sorry for that'.
Length: 1 sheet, 83 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: XML version first created without transcription as part of project 'Unlocking the Mary Hamilton Papers', funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council under grant AH/S007121/1. Transcription added after the funded period under the supervision of David Denison and Nuria Yáñez-Bouza.
Transliterator: Mercedes Bermúdez-Santiago, undergraduate student, University of Vigo (submitted 20 February 2025)
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: 20 July 2025
