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HAM/1/11/9

Letter from Lady Dartrey (later Lady Cremorne) to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text


To
      Miʃs Hamilton[1]


[2]


Queens Lodge. Windsor

                                                         Thursday Morg
½ past Six o'Clock.
23d: August 1781

My Dear Miʃs Hamilton


      I cannot leave this Place,
where the Queen has honoured me with such
marks of goodneʃs & attention, without leaving
a little Note to expreʃs my Gratitude. -- you
know how incapable I am of saying what
I ought to do, but you know at the same
time, that I am not leʃs sensible of the great
goodneʃs I have experienced; -- pray, when you
have an Opportunity, present my humble
(& if I might be allowed,) thMy Affectionate duty
to the Queen; & aʃsure her Majesty how very


grateful I am -- & how very happy I have
been, in having been allowed to see her
Majestys Virtues, so near. -- They are such
as add Lustre to her Crown. -- pray present
also my duty theto the Princeʃses, & thank
their Royal Highneʃses for all their
goodneʃs to me -- Adieu -- take care of
your health my Dr: Miʃs Hamilton,
it is a double Duty -- this is I know
sufficient to you, without adding more --
my hair is dreʃsingdreʃsed,  ------------------------ 
so I must conclude, begging pardon for
this unfortunate blot
                             very sincerely yrs
                                                         PDartrey


[3]
I am quite delighted with the Queens
present -- you see Ma'am what pretty
paper I write upon. -- I shall value
it as I ought to do, -- [4]

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Notes


 1. The address appears in the middle of the page.
 2. The remains of a wax seal mark appears at the bottom left of the page.
 3. The remains of a wax seal mark appear at top right of the page.
 4. This postscript appears at the bottom of p.2, on the right-hand side of the sheet.

Normalised Text


To
      Miss Hamilton






                                                         Thursday Morning
½ past Six o'Clock.

My Dear Miss Hamilton


      I cannot leave this Place,
where the Queen has honoured me with such
marks of goodness & attention, without leaving
a little Note to express my Gratitude. -- you
know how incapable I am of saying what
I ought to do, but you know at the same
time, that I am not less sensible of the great
goodness I have experienced; -- pray, when you
have an Opportunity, present my humble
(& if I might be allowed,) My Affectionate duty
to the Queen; & assure her Majesty how very


grateful I am -- & how very happy I have
been, in having been allowed to see her
Majestys Virtues, so near. -- They are such
as add Lustre to her Crown. -- pray present
also my duty to the Princesses, & thank
their Royal Highnesses for all their
goodness to me -- Adieu -- take care of
your health my Dear Miss Hamilton,
it is a double Duty -- this is I know
sufficient to you, without adding more --
my hair is dressed,
so I must conclude, begging pardon for
this unfortunate blot
                             very sincerely yours
                                                         Philadelphia Dartrey



I am quite delighted with the Queens
present -- you see Ma'am what pretty
paper I write upon. -- I shall value
it as I ought to do, --

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 1. The address appears in the middle of the page.
 2. The remains of a wax seal mark appears at the bottom left of the page.
 3. The remains of a wax seal mark appear at top right of the page.
 4. This postscript appears at the bottom of p.2, on the right-hand side of the sheet.

Metadata

Library References

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

Archive: Mary Hamilton Papers

Item title: Letter from Lady Dartrey (later Lady Cremorne) to Mary Hamilton

Shelfmark: HAM/1/11/9

Correspondence Details

Sender: Philadelphia Hannah, Baroness Cremorne Dawson (née Freame)

Place sent: Windsor

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: Windsor

Date sent: 23 August 1781

Letter Description

Summary: Letter from Lady Dartrey to Mary Hamilton, relating to Dartrey leaving Queen Charlotte's service. She writes that she cannot leave this place where the Queen has been so good to her without leaving a little note to express her thanks. She asks that when Hamilton has an opportunity to give her duty to the Queen to tell her how happy she has been to be allowed to see the Queen's 'virtues so near'. She sends her duty to the princesses and asks that Hamilton look after her health.
    Dated at the Queen's Lodge.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 219 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 26 March 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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