Diplomatic Text
19th: March 1781
My dearest Friend
I am very much vexed
to hear, that you have suffered, so much
from your Blister, and I hope
that you will now grow gradually better
& that in the course of a few days You
will be perfectly recovered I am at
least sure that you have the most[1]
sincere wishes of your ever affec-
tionate Charlotte.
I shall not expect an answer, &
rather beg not to have one because
I think that it must hurt you[2]
to write.
I took leave last Night of Madame
Busch -- Adieu Ever Yours
Charlotte
[3]
Miʃs Hamilton
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Normalised Text
My dearest Friend
I am very much vexed
to hear, that you have suffered, so much
from your Blister, and I hope
that you will now grow gradually better
& that in the course of a few days You
will be perfectly recovered I am at
least sure that you have the most
sincere wishes of your ever affectionate
Charlotte.
I shall not expect an answer, &
rather beg not to have one because
I think that it must hurt you
to write.
I took leave last Night of Madame
Busch -- Adieu Ever Yours
Charlotte
Miss Hamilton
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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/1/1/5/21
Correspondence Details
Sender: Charlotte Augusta Matilda, Princess Royal
Place sent: to be determined
Addressee: Mary Hamilton
Place received: to be determined
Date sent: 19 March 1781
Letter Description
Summary: Letter from Charlotte, Princess Royal, to Mary Hamilton. She is distressed to hear that Hamilton has been suffering with a 'blister' and hopes that she will be completely recovered within a few days. Charlotte does not wish an answer to her letter as she expects it will be painful for Hamilton to write.
Length: 1 sheet, 97 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: 6 June 2025
