Diplomatic Text
Madam,
I --- Tho you did not think last
Night of a flock of Sheep, yet
as you did Sleep more than
the Night before I will
love you a little bit. Pray
Give my Love to your Mama
your Friend
Charlotte Augusta Matilda
January 14th,, 1778
To
Miʃs Hamilton
St James's
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Normalised Text
Madam,
Though you did not think last
Night of a flock of Sheep, yet
as you did Sleep more than
the Night before I will
love you a little bit. Pray
Give my Love to your Mama
your Friend
Charlotte Augusta Matilda
January 14th,, 1778
To
Miss Hamilton
St James's
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: Letter from Charlotte, Princess Royal, to Mary Hamilton
Shelfmark: HAM/1/1/5/3
Correspondence Details
Sender: Charlotte Augusta Matilda, Princess Royal
Place sent: to be determined
Addressee: Mary Hamilton
Place received: London
Date sent: 14 January 1778
Letter Description
Summary: Letter from Charlotte, Princess Royal, to Mary Hamilton. Although Hamilton did not think of a flock of sheep the previous night (HAM/1/1/5/2), she still had more sleep than the night before this and so Charlotte agrees to 'love you a little bit'. Charlotte also sends her love to Hamilton's mother.
Length: 1 sheet, 50 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: 23 July 2025
