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HAM/1/12/4

Letter from Charlotte Finch to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text


St James's. Tuesday
Night ten o'Clock


My Dear Miʃs Hamilton,

      So good an Account of yourself
in your own hand, believe me was a very sincere
pleasure & Satisfaction to me. I recd. & read your
Letter in their Royal Highneʃses Apartment,
who desired their Loves to you & aʃsurances of
their tendres Souvenirs in wch. Melle. Moula join'd,
& they were all rejoiced to hear you are so much on
the Recovery. Pʃs Augusta I think may be
said to be perfectly well. I hope your riding
will compleat your Cure, & the fine Weather
we have is very favorable to recovering from
illneʃs. Mrs Fielding & Harriet I am sure wd. com-
-miʃsion me to add their kindest Complimts. were
they at home, for they enquire constantly & anxiously
after you, but I am but just return'd from the
Queen's Houʃe & they not yet come home. Adieu my
dear take care of yourself & believe me Yr Very Affcte.
                             & Sincere Friend & Hum. Sert.      CFinch


7th. April
1778[1]
Miʃs Hamilton

                             [2]

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Notes


 1. This annotation appears in the left margin at 90 degrees to the address line.
 2. A red wax seal with the letters 'CF' remains at the bottom right of the page.

Normalised Text


St James's. Tuesday
Night ten o'Clock


My Dear Miss Hamilton,

      So good an Account of yourself
in your own hand, believe me was a very sincere
pleasure & Satisfaction to me. I received & read your
Letter in their Royal Highnesses Apartment,
who desired their Loves to you & assurances of
their tendres Souvenirs in which Mademoiselle Moula joined,
& they were all rejoiced to hear you are so much on
the Recovery. Princess Augusta I think may be
said to be perfectly well. I hope your riding
will complete your Cure, & the fine Weather
we have is very favourable to recovering from
illness. Mrs Fielding & Harriet I am sure would commission
 me to add their kindest Compliments were
they at home, for they enquire constantly & anxiously
after you, but I am but just returned from the
Queen's House & they not yet come home. Adieu my
dear take care of yourself & believe me Your Very Affectionate
                             & Sincere Friend & Humble Servant      Charlotte Finch



Miss Hamilton

                            

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 1. This annotation appears in the left margin at 90 degrees to the address line.
 2. A red wax seal with the letters 'CF' remains at the bottom right of the page.

Metadata

Library References

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

Archive: Mary Hamilton Papers

Item title: Letter from Charlotte Finch to Mary Hamilton

Shelfmark: HAM/1/12/4

Correspondence Details

Sender: Lady Charlotte Finch (née Fermor)

Place sent: London

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: unknown

Date sent: 7 April 1778

Letter Description

Summary: Letter from Charlotte Finch to Mary Hamilton. She is pleased to have an account of Hamilton's health written in her own hand. She received her letter whilst in the Royal Highness' apartments and the princesses send their love and all will be delighted to hear that she is recovering. She writes if her daughters, Mrs Fielding and Harriet, were here they would ask for Finch to send their compliments as they often enquire after her.
    Dated at St James's [London].
   

Length: 1 sheet, 171 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 21 April 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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