HAM/1/1/5/24

Letter from Charlotte, Princess Royal, to Mary Hamilton

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Diplomatic Text

My Dearest Hammy,

I that love & adore you, think it very hard, that you
will not Kiʃs me to Day;

I will tell you why I love you; This is the
reason, for it is that I think you have a good
Character.

                My Dearest Hammy.
                     Your most
                 Affectionate
          Charlotte Augusta Matilda

Children

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Normalised Text

My Dearest Hammy,

I that love & adore you, think it very hard, that you
will not Kiss me to Day;

I will tell you why I love you; This is the
reason, for it is that I think you have a good
Character.

                My Dearest Hammy.
                     Your most
               Affectionate
          Charlotte Augusta Matilda

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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/1/1/5/24

Correspondence Details

Sender: Charlotte Augusta Matilda, Princess Royal

Place sent: to be determined

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: to be determined

Date sent: between June 1777 and November 1782
notBefore June 1777 (precision: high)
notAfter November 1782 (precision: medium)

Letter Description

Summary: Early letter from Charlotte, Princess Royal, to Mary Hamilton. She writes that she loves Hamilton because she has 'a good character'.

Length: 1 sheet, 53 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: 6 June 2025

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