Single Letter

HAM/1/1/5/14

Letter from Charlotte, Princess Royal, to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text


My dear
Good Miʃs Hamilton, I hope you will
love me as much as I do you. Dear Miʃs
                               I am
                             your little
                             faithful friend

                               Charlotte.
Thursday
May 22d. 1778[1]



Hamilton,[2]

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Notes


 1. The dateline appears to the left of the signature. Note that 22 May 1778 was a Friday.
 2. This scribbled address appears at the foot of the page.

Normalised Text


My dear
Good Miss Hamilton, I hope you will
love me as much as I do you. Dear Miss
                               I am
                             your little
                             faithful friend

                               Charlotte.




Hamilton,

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 1. The dateline appears to the left of the signature. Note that 22 May 1778 was a Friday.
 2. This scribbled address appears at the foot of the page.

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/1/1/5/14

Correspondence Details

Sender: Charlotte Augusta Matilda, Princess Royal

Place sent: to be determined

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: to be determined

Date sent: 22 May 1778

Letter Description

Summary: Letter from Charlotte, Princess Royal, to Mary Hamilton. She writes that she hopes Hamilton will love her as much as she does Hamilton.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 27 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: 30 May 2025

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