Diplomatic Text
My Dr Hammy
I have the
pleasure to acquaint you with
the Queens being happily
brought a bed of a Boy. I
am so much pleased with it
& my thoughts run upon it
so much that I can write to you
upon no other subject. I wish
you were all returned but I am
afraid of we shall wait some
time before that happens.
I must now take
leave & remain
ever yours
Charlotte
September 22d
1780[1]
Pʃs. Royal
22d. Septr. 1780
To
Miʃs Hamilton
Eastbourn
recd. Saturday morng. 5 oClock
expreʃs came at 3. 23d Septr. 1780
[2]
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Normalised Text
My Dear Hammy
I have the
pleasure to acquaint you with
the Queens being happily
brought abed of a Boy. I
am so much pleased with it
& my thoughts run upon it
so much that I can write to you
upon no other subject. I wish
you were all returned but I am
afraid we shall wait some
time before that happens.
I must now take
leave & remain
ever yours
Charlotte
September 22d
1780
To
Miss Hamilton
Eastbourn
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/1/1/5/18
Correspondence Details
Sender: Charlotte Augusta Matilda, Princess Royal
Place sent: to be determined
Addressee: Mary Hamilton
Place received: Eastbourne
Date sent: 22 September 1780
Letter Description
Summary: Letter from Charlotte, Princess Royal, to Mary Hamilton. She writes that she has the pleasure of informing Hamilton that the Queen has given birth to a son [Prince Alfred (1780-1782)]. Charlotte is so pleased 'with it & my thoughts run upon it so much that I can write to you upon no other subject'. She wishes that Hamilton was back with her and is 'afraid we shall wait some time before that happened'.
Written in Hamilton's hand is a note dated at Eastbourne, 'rec[ieve]d Saturday morning 5 o'clock'.
Length: 1 sheet, 80 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: 8 August 2025
