Diplomatic Text
My Dear Miʃs Hamilton, I beg you to be so good
to deliver the Enclosed to P Ernest & Pʃs Elizabeth
& hope you will indulge me with a Line to know
how they all do, as well as yourself. Mr Feilding
I doubt not has deliver'd to you the Manuscript
I charged him with Yesterday. with a Note from
me. I have nothing material to add so will only
say I am ever & most Affly. Yrs. C.Finch
Ly Louisa begs to be kindly remember'd to you
I forgot to say to P. Ernest I will do
what he desires as soon as I come to Town
but cannot from hence.
Harleyford. March 26th. 1780
[1]
To
Miʃs Hamilton
Queens House[2]
London
[3][4]
[5]
Hon Wm:
Clayton[6]
red text is normalised and/or unformatted in other panel)
Notes
1. Bishop mark dated 27 March, in brown-black ink.
2. Free frank in red ink.
3. Postal stamp 'High Wickham' in black ink.
4. High Wickham here refers to present-day High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire.
5. Seal with CF monogram in red ink.
6. This is the signature of William Clayton MP, who was entitled to free postage under the Parliamentary Franking System; the free frank stamp on the right-hand side of the address had to be accompanied by the signature of the holder. Clayton's residence was Harleyford Manor.
Normalised Text
My Dear Miss Hamilton, I beg you to be so good
to deliver the Enclosed to Prince Ernest & Princess Elizabeth
& hope you will indulge me with a Line to know
how they all do, as well as yourself. Mr Feilding
I doubt not has delivered to you the Manuscript
I charged him with Yesterday. with a Note from
me. I have nothing material to add so will only
say I am ever & most Affectionately Yours Charlotte Finch
Lady Louisa begs to be kindly remembered to you
I forgot to say to Prince Ernest I will do
what he desires as soon as I come to Town
but cannot from hence.
Harleyford. March 26th. 1780
To
Miss Hamilton
Queens House
London
quotations, spellings, uncorrected forms, split words, abbreviations, formatting)
Notes
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/1/12/16
Correspondence Details
Sender: Lady Charlotte Finch (née Fermor)
Place sent: Harleyford, near Marlow
Addressee: Mary Hamilton
Place received: London
Date sent: 26 March 1780
Letter Description
Summary: Note from Charlotte Finch to Mary Hamilton. She asks Hamilton if she would deliver the enclosed to Princess Elizabeth and send her a few lines to let her know how the princesses and princes are doing. She informs Prince Ernest that she will carry out his request once she returns but is unable to do so at present.
Dated at Harley Ford.
Length: 1 sheet, 123 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 April 2020)
Cataloguer: Lisa Crawley, Archivist, The John Rylands Library
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Revision date: 2 November 2021