Single Letter

HAM/1/1/5/6

Letter from Charlotte, Princess Royal, to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text


A Mademoiselle
Mademoiselle Hamilton
                             St James



[1]


                                                         Janvier
                                                 28„ 1778
Ma Chere,                          ▼

Je vous aʃsure que Je
vous aime de tout mon
Coeur & Je vous prie d'avoir
la bonté de m'accorder votre
amitie & ci vous avez cette
bonté vous me renderez
for heureuse.
                                                         Ma Chere.
                                                      Votre Amie
                             Charlotte Augusta

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Notes


 1. Remains of seal, in red wax.

Normalised Text


A Mademoiselle
Mademoiselle Hamilton
                             St James






                                                         Janvier
                                            28„ 1778
Ma Chere,                ▼

Je vous assure que Je
vous aime de tout mon
Coeur & Je vous prie d'avoir
la bonté de m'accorder votre
amitie & ci vous avez cette
bonté vous me rendrez
for heureuse.
                                                         Ma Chere.
                                            Votre Amie
                             Charlotte Augusta

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quotations, spellings, uncorrected forms, split words, abbreviations, formatting)



 1. Remains of seal, in red wax.

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/1/1/5/6

Correspondence Details

Sender: Charlotte Augusta Matilda, Princess Royal

Place sent: to be determined

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: London

Date sent: 28 January 1778

Letter Description

Summary: Letter from Charlotte, Princess Royal, to Mary Hamilton, written in French.
    Dated at St James's, [London].
   

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: David Denison (submitted 21 July 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: 1 March 2026

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