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HAM/1/1/6/8

Writing sampler by Charlotte Boyle-Walsingham (later FitzGerald)

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Youth wanteth experie-nce
Youth wanteth experie
Youth wanteth experie
Youth wanteth experie
Youth wanteth experie
Youth wanteth experie
Charlotte Boyle.
      May 4th 1780.
10 Years & 11 Months
with a Pen of her own making.[2]

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Notes


 1. It is not at present known how this sampler came into Hamilton's possession, perhaps as a souvenir from her extended visit to the family home at Thames Ditton in 1783.
 2. Charlotte Boyle-Walsingham was born on 24 May 1769. She gives her age precisely, as children often do. In later years her accomplishments are much praised (see e.g. HAM/2/11 p.61 and HAM/1/2/8/1 p.2 col.2).

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Youth wanteth experience
Youth wanteth experie
Youth wanteth experie
Youth wanteth experie
Youth wanteth experie
Youth wanteth experie
Charlotte Boyle.
      May 4th 1780.
10 Years & 11 Months
with a Pen of her own making.

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 1. It is not at present known how this sampler came into Hamilton's possession, perhaps as a souvenir from her extended visit to the family home at Thames Ditton in 1783.
 2. Charlotte Boyle-Walsingham was born on 24 May 1769. She gives her age precisely, as children often do. In later years her accomplishments are much praised (see e.g. HAM/2/11 p.61 and HAM/1/2/8/1 p.2 col.2).

Metadata

Library References

Repository: John Rylands Research Institute and Library, University of Manchester

Archive: Mary Hamilton Papers

Item title: Writing sampler by Charlotte Boyle-Walsingham (later FitzGerald)

Shelfmark: HAM/1/1/6/8

Document Details

Author: Charlotte FitzGerald (née Boyle-Walsingham)

Date: 4 May 1780

Summary: Writing sampler by Charlotte Boyle-Walsingham (later FitzGerald). In the sampler, Charlotte notes that she has written this 'with a Pen of her own making'.
    Formerly catalogued as by Charlotte, Princess Royal.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 35 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 April 2026

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