Diplomatic Text
6 Decr 1766
Dear Brother,
I must send you a trouble
of this sort now & then. I feel a
want of knowing how you do; And
I am glad to tell you, as you will
be to hear it, that we are all well
Slight Colds excepted, & Enjoy this not
a little, after the very uneasy win
:ter we had of it, the last; findg our
selves now peaceably & quietly in
our own house, after so much toʃsing
about on the Subjt: of health & --
pursuing it from Place to Place
appears of double value from the
Comparison of the past.
It will give my Lord & me very
great pleasure to hear that your Situ
:ation at Dallington is perfectly to
your mind & Mrs: Hamilton's, whose
health, as well as yours, we wish
to hear a good Act: of, & hope your
Daughter turns out to your wiʃh, &
I may say expectation, for she appeard
to us extremely promising. I supose
Mrs. Hamilton will take it in good part
if she is told her Daughter is, as tall as
herself, 'tis a Complimt: I meet with every
day, tho mine wants half a year of
the age of thirteen: Charles is so Stout
that he followed the Coach with four
horses, on horseback to day to Turnham
green & back again with out the least
fatigue, he is quite well, & the Docr.
thinks he will be fit to go to his
Br. at Eton after Easter: I have a
little Archd Hamilton to shew you, that
you have never seen, I hope you
will like him & not let him be grown
up to the dreʃs of a Man before you
see him, he is just got to the age of speakg
every thing intelligeably, two years & a
half old, I believe it is more than three
yrs since we have met, wch: may cause some
alteration as to looks amongst us, but one
article I am sure is the Same. My
Lords affecte good wishes & kind Compts:
attend you & yours & I am ever
Dear Brother
your Most Affectionate
Sister &c
J. Cathcart.
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Normalised Text
6 December 1766
Dear Brother,
I must send you a trouble
of this sort now & then. I feel a
want of knowing how you do; And
I am glad to tell you, as you will
be to hear it, that we are all well
Slight Colds excepted, & Enjoy this not
a little, after the very uneasy winter
we had of it, the last; finding our
selves now peaceably & quietly in
our own house, after so much tossing
about on the subject of health & --
pursuing it from Place to Place
appears of double value from the
Comparison of the past.
It will give my Lord & me very
great pleasure to hear that your Situation
at Dallington is perfectly to
your mind & Mrs: Hamilton's, whose
health, as well as yours, we wish
to hear a good Account of, & hope your
Daughter turns out to your wish, &
I may say expectation, for she appeared
to us extremely promising. I suppose
Mrs. Hamilton will take it in good part
if she is told her Daughter is, as tall as
herself, 'tis a Compliment I meet with every
day, though mine wants half a year of
the age of thirteen: Charles is so Stout
that he followed the Coach with four
horses, on horseback to day to Turnham
green & back again with out the least
fatigue, he is quite well, & the Doctor
thinks he will be fit to go to his
Brother at Eton after Easter: I have a
little Archibald Hamilton to show you, that
you have never seen, I hope you
will like him & not let him be grown
up to the dress of a Man before you
see him, he is just got to the age of speaking
every thing intelligibly, two years & a
half old, I believe it is more than three
years since we have met, which may cause some
alteration as to looks amongst us, but one
article I am sure is the Same. My
Lords affectionate good wishes & kind Compliments
attend you & yours & I am ever
Dear Brother
your Most Affectionate
Sister &c
Jean Cathcart.
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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 Jean Cathcart (née Hamilton) to Charles Hamilton
Shelfmark: HAM/1/4/7/9
Correspondence Details
Sender: Lady Jane Cathcart (née Hamilton)
Place sent: London
Addressee: Charles Hamilton
Place received: unknown
Date sent: 6 December 1766
Letter Description
Summary: Letter from Jean Cathcart [wife of Lord Cathcart 9th, Ambassador to the Court of Russia] to her brother Charles Hamilton. She discusses her family and asks for news of his. She reports that she now has a ‘little arch[iba]ld Hamilton’ whom he has not yet seen.
Dated at Dover Street [London].
Length: 1 sheet, 364 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: Transcription and XML version created as part of project 'Unlocking the Mary Hamilton Papers', funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council under grant AH/S007121/1.
Transliterator: Tino Oudesluijs, editorial team (completed 3 August 2020)
Cataloguer: Lisa Crawley, Archivist, The John Rylands Library
Cataloguer: John Hodgson, Head of Special Collections, John Rylands Research Institute and Library
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Revision date: 2 November 2021