Single Letter

HAM/1/1/5/9

Letter from Charlotte, Princess Royal, to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text


                                                         Febrvuary 2d
                                                         1778
My Dearest.

      Pray have you given my
Méʃsage[1] to Mrs Hamilton.

      I congratulate you on having
a Holyday next    Thursday
afternoon, I hope you will
make good use of it.
                My Dearest.
                Your Friend.
      Charlotte Augusta Matilda


Miʃs Hamilton

St James's.

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Notes


 1. The very clear, though erroneous, acute accent in Méssage may be intended as eye dialect to indicate a French word in this letter's highly formal register; cf. HAM/1/1/5/6 of a few days earlier, written entirely in French.

Normalised Text


                                                         February 2d
                                                         1778
My Dearest.

      Pray have you given my
Méssage to Mrs Hamilton.

      I congratulate you on having
a Holiday next    Thursday
afternoon, I hope you will
make good use of it.
                My Dearest.
                Your Friend.
      Charlotte Augusta Matilda


Miss Hamilton

St James's.

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 1. The very clear, though erroneous, acute accent in Méssage may be intended as eye dialect to indicate a French word in this letter's highly formal register; cf. HAM/1/1/5/6 of a few days earlier, written entirely in French.

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/1/1/5/9

Correspondence Details

Sender: Charlotte Augusta Matilda, Princess Royal

Place sent: to be determined

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: London

Date sent: 2 February 1778

Letter Description

Summary: Letter from Charlotte, Princess Royal, to Mary Hamilton. She congratulates Hamilton on having a holiday the following Thursday afternoon and hopes that she will 'make good use of it'.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 44 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

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