Unlocking the Mary Hamilton papers

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HAM/1/7/6/22

Letter from John Fisher to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text



      Dear Madam

      Your obliging Letter I
received yesterday.
      I have now the high
satisfaction of informing you, that
every thing is going on well at the Queens
Palace. The Kings health has been gra=
dually amending for three days without any
check, & hopes begin to be entertained of
a speedy Recovery. The Queen & the
Princeʃses are tolerably well.
      Should anny opportunity offer, of visiting
your part of ye Kingdom, it would give great


pleasure to Mrs. Fisher & myself to wait
upon you & Mr. Dickenson.
      We have been very unfortunate
in our Family. Of eight Children we
have but three remaining: a Son & two
Daughters.
      I will take the first opportu=
nity I have, of mentioning to Princeʃs Eliza
=beth the meʃsage you have honoured me
with.
      With our united good wishes
to Mr. Dickenson & yourself
      I remain
                                                         Dear Madam
      your most faithful friend & Servt.
                                                         +J. Exeter
Fludyer St. Feb: 22 1804           *Fisher[1]

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 1. A small cross links this name to the signature above.

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      Dear Madam

      Your obliging Letter I
received yesterday.
      I have now the high
satisfaction of informing you, that
every thing is going on well at the Queens
Palace. The Kings health has been gradually
 amending for three days without any
check, & hopes begin to be entertained of
a speedy Recovery. The Queen & the
Princesses are tolerably well.
      Should anny opportunity offer, of visiting
your part of the Kingdom, it would give great


pleasure to Mrs. Fisher & myself to wait
upon you & Mr. Dickenson.
      We have been very unfortunate
in our Family. Of eight Children we
have but three remaining: a Son & two
Daughters.
      I will take the first opportunity
 I have, of mentioning to Princess Elizabeth
 the message you have honoured me
with.
      With our united good wishes
to Mr. Dickenson & yourself
      I remain
                                                         Dear Madam
      your most faithful friend & Servant
                                                         John Exeter
Fludyer Street February 22           

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 1. A small cross links this name to the signature above.

Metadata

Library References

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

Archive: Mary Hamilton Papers

Item title: Letter from John Fisher to Mary Hamilton

Shelfmark: HAM/1/7/6/22

Correspondence Details

Sender: John Fisher

Place sent: London

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: unknown

Date sent: 22 February 1804

Letter Description

Summary: Letter from John Fisher to Mary Hamilton, relating to the health of the Royal Family. Fisher reports that everything is well at the Queen's Palace with the Queen and the princesses are 'tolerably well'. The King's health has improved and there are hopes of a speedy recovery.
    Fisher asks that Hamilton and her husband visit should they be in their area and notes that he has been unlucky in his family. Of eight children, only three now survive.
    At his first opportunity, Fisher notes that he will pass Hamilton's message on to Princess Elizabeth.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 154 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: Cassandra Ulph, editorial team (completed 29 October 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

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