Diplomatic Text
My Dearest Love;
I beg you will have the Good-
-neʃs, to do me the pleasure of
Giving my Love to your Mama
& tell her that tho' I have not
the happineʃs to know her. Yet
I love her because she belongs
to you.
Pray --- give me your love; for
I wish for your love so vmuch
that I think you must give
it me.
My Dearest Love
Your little affectionate
Friend.
Charlotte Augusta Matilda.
February 1st,, 1778
[1]
Miʃs Hamilton
[2]
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Normalised Text
My Dearest Love;
I beg you will have the Goodness
, to do me the pleasure of
Giving my Love to your Mama
& tell her that though I have not
the happiness to know her. Yet
I love her because she belongs
to you.
Pray give me your love; for
I wish for your love so much
that I think you must give
it me.
My Dearest Love
Your little affectionate
Friend.
Charlotte Augusta Matilda.
February 1st,, 1778
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/1/1/5/8
Correspondence Details
Sender: Charlotte Augusta Matilda, Princess Royal
Place sent: to be determined
Addressee: Mary Hamilton
Place received: to be determined
Date sent: 1 February 1778
Letter Description
Summary: Letter from Charlotte, Princess Royal, to Mary Hamilton. She begs Hamilton to send her love to her mother. Although Charlotte had not yet met Mrs Hamilton, she writes that she loves 'her because she belongs to you'.
Length: 1 sheet, 80 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: 21 July 2025
