Diplomatic Text
Harleyford Friday Night
March 1780
My Dear Miʃs Hamilton
I waited for the opportunity of Mr Feildings
return, to send you back the pretty Entertaining Manus-
-cript you was so good to entrust me with, it has not suffer'd
in my hands, but some of the Leaves got a little wet in
coming by the Post that rainy Day, but I dried them
very carefully, & hope they have suffer'd as little as
poʃsible. pray give my Duty at the Queen's Houʃe, I hope
tomorrow will bring me a good Account of all there &
particularly of Princeʃs Elizabeth. I shall take the first
opportunity of answering P. Ernests Letter & beg you will
thank H.R.H. from me for it. I have nothing new to
say about my health, so will only add Lady Louisa's
kind Compliments to you, & which she reproaches me
with having omitted the last time I wrote to you. She
has shared in the Amusement of the pretty Manuscript
I am ever my Dear Miʃs Hamn
Most Affly. Yrs.
CFinch
Remember me to all my
Friends at the Queen's House[1]
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Normalised Text
Harleyford Friday Night
My Dear Miss Hamilton
I waited for the opportunity of Mr Feildings
return, to send you back the pretty Entertaining Manuscript
you was so good to entrust me with, it has not suffered
in my hands, but some of the Leaves got a little wet in
coming by the Post that rainy Day, but I dried them
very carefully, & hope they have suffered as little as
possible. pray give my Duty at the Queen's House, I hope
tomorrow will bring me a good Account of all there &
particularly of Princess Elizabeth. I shall take the first
opportunity of answering Prince Ernests Letter & beg you will
thank HisRoyalHighness from me for it. I have nothing new to
say about my health, so will only add Lady Louisa's
kind Compliments to you, & which she reproaches me
with having omitted the last time I wrote to you. She
has shared in the Amusement of the pretty Manuscript
I am ever my Dear Miss Hamilton
Most Affectionately Yours
Charlotte Finch
Remember me to all my
Friends at the Queen's House
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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/1/12/18
Correspondence Details
Sender: Lady Charlotte Finch (née Fermor)
Place sent: Harleyford, near Marlow
Addressee: Mary Hamilton
Place received: unknown
Date sent: March 1780
Letter Description
Summary: Letter from Charlotte Finch to Mary Hamilton. She has nothing new to say on her health but asks for news of Princess Elizabeth and that at the first opportunity she gets she will answer Prince Ernest's letter.
Dated at Harleyford [Buckinghamshire].
Length: 1 sheet, 183 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 15 April 2020)
Cataloguer: Lisa Crawley, Archivist, The John Rylands Library
Cataloguer: John Hodgson, Head of Special Collections, John Rylands Research Institute and Library
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Revision date: 2 November 2021