Diplomatic Text
My dearest Hammy,
I am very sorry to have tormented & hurt you, in
not learning my Leʃson for Monsieur de Guiffardiere,
but I promise you to do my utmost for to know it
perfectly to morrow.
My Dearest Hammy,
Your affectionate Friend.
Charlotte Augusta Matilda
--- February 6th,, 1778.
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Normalised Text
My dearest Hammy,
I am very sorry to have tormented & hurt you, in
not learning my Lesson for Monsieur de Guiffardiere,
but I promise you to do my utmost for to know it
perfectly to morrow.
My Dearest Hammy,
Your affectionate Friend.
Charlotte Augusta Matilda
February 6th,, 1778.
quotations, spellings, uncorrected forms, split words, abbreviations, formatting)
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/1/1/5/13
Correspondence Details
Sender: Charlotte Augusta Matilda, Princess Royal
Place sent: to be determined
Addressee: Mary Hamilton
Place received: to be determined
Date sent: 6 February 1778
Letter Description
Summary: Letter from Charlotte, Princess Royal, to Mary Hamilton. She writes that she is sorry that she has tormented and hurt Hamilton by not learning her lesson and promises to do her utmost to learn it for the following day.
Length: 1 sheet, 49 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: 22 July 2025
