HAM/1/1/5/15

Letter from Charlotte, Princess Royal, to Mary Hamilton

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Diplomatic Text

My Dearest

      I beg you will
forgive me intruding upon your
morning leaisure, but must beg
that to morrow you will Break-
-fast with me. I am very sorry
to find that you have so bad
a head-ach, & beg that if to morrow
you have such another you will
not think of comming to my
      Breakfast.
▼
                             My Dearest
                                Yours
                     Charlotte Augusta Matilda
Monday night
      June 16^th. 1778^[1]

Miʃs Hamilton

Prince Ernest's House

^[2]

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Notes

1. The dateline appears to the left of the closing salutation. 16 June 1778 was a Tuesday and has therefore been taken as the date of receipt.
2. Seal in red wax.

Normalised Text

My Dearest

      I beg you will
forgive me intruding upon your
morning leisure, but must beg
that to morrow you will Breakfast
with me. I am very sorry
to find that you have so bad
a headache, & beg that if to morrow
you have such another you will
not think of coming to my
      Breakfast.
▼
                             My Dearest
                                Yours
                     Charlotte Augusta Matilda
Monday night

Miss Hamilton

Prince Ernest's House

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Notes

1. The dateline appears to the left of the closing salutation. 16 June 1778 was a Tuesday and has therefore been taken as the date of receipt.
2. Seal in red wax.

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/1/1/5/15

Correspondence Details

Sender: Charlotte Augusta Matilda, Princess Royal

Place sent: to be determined

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: Kew

Date sent: 16 June 1778

Letter Description

Summary: Letter from Charlotte, Princess Royal, to Mary Hamilton. She apologises for intruding upon Hamilton's leisure time and asks if she will have breakfast with her the next morning. Charlotte is sorry to hear that Hamilton has a headache and begs that she leave breakfasting with her if she still has it the next day.

Length: 1 sheet, 69 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: 23 July 2025

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