Diplomatic Text
February 3d.
1778
My Dearest Hammy,
▼
I am quite unhappy to see you so ill, for
I am very much affraid that it is me that
hasve hurt you. I promise you to do every
thing in my power to make amends[1] for it,
& that at any tim[e] ------------------------------
will certainly ------------------------------
My Dearest Hammy
your Friend.
Charlotte Augusta Matilda.
Miʃs Hamilton
St James's Palace
red text is normalised and/or unformatted in other panel)
Notes
1. The mark above e in amends may well be a non-significant mark; it cannot be explained in the same way as in the previous letter (see HAM/1/1/5/9 n.).
Normalised Text
February 3d.
1778
My Dearest Hammy,
▼
I am quite unhappy to see you so ill, for
I am very much afraid that it is me that
has hurt you. I promise you to do every
thing in my power to make amends for it,
& that at any time ------------------------------
will certainly ------------------------------
My Dearest Hammy
your Friend.
Charlotte Augusta Matilda.
Miss Hamilton
St James's Palace
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/1/1/5/10
Correspondence Details
Sender: Charlotte Augusta Matilda, Princess Royal
Place sent: to be determined
Addressee: Mary Hamilton
Place received: London
Date sent: 3 February 1778
Letter Description
Summary: Letter from Charlotte, Princess Royal, to Mary Hamilton. She is upset to hear that Hamilton is ill and is worried that it is she that has caused her illness and 'promises to do everything in [...] [her] power to make amends for it'.
Length: 1 sheet, 64 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
