HAM/1/1/5/12

Letter from Charlotte, Princess Royal, to Mary Hamilton

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Diplomatic Text

                                                         February 5^th.
                                                         1778
My Dearest.

I wish you Joy of your
Birth Day & hope you
will see many more of
them. I beg you to look
up - on beme as one of your
best Friends & well
wishers.
                 - My Dearest
                Your Friend.

      Charlotte Augusta Mat[ilda]

[Miʃ]s Hamilton

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Normalised Text

                                                         February 5th.
                                                         1778
My Dearest.

I wish you Joy of your
Birth Day & hope you
will see many more of
them. I beg you to look
upon me as one of your
best Friends & well
wishers.
                My Dearest
                Your Friend.

      Charlotte Augusta Matilda

Miss Hamilton

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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/1/1/5/12

Correspondence Details

Sender: Charlotte Augusta Matilda, Princess Royal

Place sent: to be determined

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: to be determined

Date sent: 5 February 1778

Letter Description

Summary: Letter from Charlotte, Princess Royal, to Mary Hamilton. She wishes Hamilton joy on her birthday and hopes she has many more of them. She asks Hamilton to look upon her as one of her best friends.

Length: 1 sheet, 47 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, M^rs. or M^rs may occur, but M.^rs or M^r.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

Revision date: 8 August 2025

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