Diplomatic Text
My dearest Hamy
I asked Mama
to Day when we were to set out
to morrow for Windsor, she answered
me that --- we should set out at half past
twelve & that we were to go in our Ri-
ding Habits. Papa & Mama themselves
go at a little past ten.
I hope to see you tomorrow quite
well and in good spirits. Adieu
I am
Ever Yours
Charlotte.
Miʃs Hamilton
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Normalised Text
My dearest Hamy
I asked Mama
to Day when we were to set out
to morrow for Windsor, she answered
me that we should set out at half past
twelve & that we were to go in our Riding
Habits. Papa & Mama themselves
go at a little past ten.
I hope to see you tomorrow quite
well and in good spirits. Adieu
I am
Ever Yours
Charlotte.
Miss Hamilton
St Jamses's
quotations, spellings, uncorrected forms, split words, abbreviations, formatting)
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/1/1/5/25
Correspondence Details
Sender: Charlotte Augusta Matilda, Princess Royal
Place sent: to be determined
Addressee: Mary Hamilton
Place received: London
Date sent: between June 1777 and November 1782
notBefore June 1777 (precision: high)
notAfter November 1782 (precision: medium)
Letter Description
Summary: Letter from Charlotte, Princess Royal, to Mary Hamilton. She writes that she has asked the Queen when they are to go to Windsor, and was answered that they were to set out at half past twelve and that 'we were to go in our own Riding Habits'. She ends her letter by writing that she hopes to see Hamilton 'tomorrow quite well and in good spirits'.
Length: 1 sheet, 72 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: 27 July 2025
