Diplomatic Text
My Dear Hamy,
I hope that
your face is better than last
Night.
Will you be so good, if you
have got the Penny Ribbon,
for the Queen's Work bag.
to send it immediately to Miʃs Planta
who will beg - in it for Mama.
My Dear Hamy
Ever Yours
Charlotte
19th- Janry 1781[1]
Miʃs Planta was going
to write to you but I
desired her to do it.
Miʃs Hamilton
red text is normalised and/or unformatted in other panel)
Normalised Text
My Dear Hamy,
I hope that
your face is better than last
Night.
Will you be so good, if you
have got the Penny Ribbon,
for the Queen's Work bag.
to send it immediately to Miss Planta
who will begin it for Mama.
My Dear Hamy
Ever Yours
Charlotte
Miss Planta was going
to write to you but I
desired to do it.
Miss Hamilton
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/1/1/5/20
Correspondence Details
Sender: Charlotte Augusta Matilda, Princess Royal
Place sent: to be determined
Addressee: Mary Hamilton
Place received: to be determined
Date sent: 19 January 1781
Letter Description
Summary: Letter from Charlotte, Princess Royal, to Mary Hamilton. She writes that she hopes Hamilton's 'face is better than last Night'. She asks her to send the ribbon for the 'Queen's Work bag' immediately to Miss Planta [Margaret Planta (1754-1834), another attendant to the princesses] so that she can begin it for the Queen.
Charlotte notes that Miss Planta was to write to Hamilton but Charlotte 'desired to do it' instead.
Length: 1 sheet, 65 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 November 2025
