Unlocking the Mary Hamilton papers

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HAM/1/12/8

Note from Charlotte Finch to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text


My Dear Miʃs Hamilton
      All I can tell you is that you will certainly
go to Kew sometime tomorrow, but the Orders are not
to be given till tomorrow Morning, so ask nothing
about it till you hear it from The Queen.
                                                         Yrs. ever most Sincerely
                                                                        CFinch
St James's.
      Saturday Night
      May     1779


Miʃs
Hamilton

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Normalised Text


My Dear Miss Hamilton
      All I can tell you is that you will certainly
go to Kew sometime tomorrow, but the Orders are not
to be given till tomorrow Morning, so ask nothing
about it till you hear it from The Queen.
                                                         Yours ever most Sincerely
                                                                        Charlotte Finch
St James's.
      Saturday Night
     


Miss
Hamilton

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Metadata

Library References

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

Archive: Mary Hamilton Papers

Item title: Note from Charlotte Finch to Mary Hamilton

Shelfmark: HAM/1/12/8

Correspondence Details

Sender: Lady Charlotte Finch (née Fermor)

Place sent: London

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: unknown

Date sent: May 1777

Letter Description

Summary: Note from Charlotte Finch to Mary Hamilton. She says that all she can tell Hamilton is that she will go to Kew at sometime tomorrow but that the order will not come until tomorrow morning 'so ask nothing about it till you hear it from the Queen'.
    Dated at St James's [London].
   

Length: 1 sheet, 54 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 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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