Diplomatic Text
My dear Miʃs Hamilton
My Mother is prevented by company
from telling you herself that she received the
Queen's commands this Morning for introducing
you to her Majesty at the Queen's Houʃe
tomorrow Evening -- as you are to be there at
Six o'clock, & my Mother is to accompany
you, she wishes it may suit you to let her
have the pleasure of seeing you here at dinner
first, at 4 o'clock, but if that shd. not be
convenient to you she will call on you in her
Coach at ten minutes before Six. as to the
day of your entering your Office, it is not yet
quite settled, but I imagine it will be early in
next Week. I am dr Miʃs Hamilton
yr. sincere & faithful
Humble. Servt.
S. Feilding
My Mother desires to join with me in Compts.
to Mrs. Hamilton -- as you come to the Q's Hʃe.
by her M's order, you will of course be
as much dreʃsed as you wd for a large
Aʃsembly.
St. James's Friday E April 18th. 1777
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Normalised Text
My dear Miss Hamilton
My Mother is prevented by company
from telling you herself that she received the
Queen's commands this Morning for introducing
you to her Majesty at the Queen's House
tomorrow Evening -- as you are to be there at
Six o'clock, & my Mother is to accompany
you, she wishes it may suit you to let her
have the pleasure of seeing you here at dinner
first, at 4 o'clock, but if that should not be
convenient to you she will call on you in her
Coach at ten minutes before Six. as to the
day of your entering your Office, it is not yet
quite settled, but I imagine it will be early in
next Week. I am dear Miss Hamilton
your sincere & faithful
Humble. Servant
Sophia Feilding
My Mother desires to join with me in Compliments
to Mrs. Hamilton -- as you come to the Queen's House
by her Majesty's order, you will of course be
as much dressed as you would for a large
Assembly.
St. James's Friday Evening April 18th. 1777
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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 Sophia Fielding (née Finch) to Mary Hamilton
Shelfmark: HAM/1/7/5/1
Correspondence Details
Sender: Sophia Fielding (née Finch)
Place sent: London
Addressee: Mary Hamilton
Place received: unknown
Date sent: 18 April 1777
Letter Description
Summary: Letter from Sophia Fielding to Mary Hamilton, relating to Hamilton's
being received by the Queen. Fielding writes that her mother, Lady
Charlotte Finch has received a command from the Queen to introduce
Hamilton to the Queen the following evening. Lady Finch will accompany
Hamilton and invites her to dine with her before they are received by the
Queen. Fielding also notes that the day for Hamilton to officially start
her post as sub-governess has not yet been confirmed but she expects it
will be early next week. She also notes that as Hamilton is to come to
the Queen's house by order of the Queen then Hamilton should be dressed
'as you w[oul]d for a large Assembly'.
Dated at St James's [London].
Length: 1 sheet, 177 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: Christine Wallis, editorial team (completed 2 November 2020)
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: 2 November 2021