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HAM/1/12/22

Note from Charlotte Finch to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text


My Dear Miʃs Hamilton
      I thank you for all your kind Enquiries & Wishes
about my Dear Mrs Feilding. She was this Morning we hoped
in a way to be better, but in the attempt this Evening to take her
up to have her bed made, I have suffer'd more than I can ex-
-preʃs by seeing her Weakneʃs so great, & her having had 3
fainting fits, one a terrible long one, & a great return of heat.
She is now got to bed again & seems quiet thō not asleep.
God knows how the Night will paʃs. Yrs. Ever
                                                         C.Finch
near Eleven April 30th. 1780

To
Miʃs Hamilton[1]
[2]

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Notes


 1. The address is written vertically.
 2. Red wax seal, initials 'CF'.

Normalised Text


My Dear Miss Hamilton
      I thank you for all your kind Enquiries & Wishes
about my Dear Mrs Feilding. She was this Morning we hoped
in a way to be better, but in the attempt this Evening to take her
up to have her bed made, I have suffered more than I can express
 by seeing her Weakness so great, & her having had 3
fainting fits, one a terrible long one, & a great return of heat.
She is now got to bed again & seems quiet though not asleep.
God knows how the Night will pass. Yours Ever
                                                         Charlotte Finch
near Eleven

To
Miss Hamilton

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quotations, spellings, uncorrected forms, split words, abbreviations, formatting)



 1. The address is written vertically.
 2. Red wax seal, initials 'CF'.

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/1/12/22

Correspondence Details

Sender: Lady Charlotte Finch (née Fermor)

Place sent: unknown

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: unknown

Date sent: 30 April 1780

Letter Description

Summary: Note from Charlotte Finch to Mary Hamilton, thanking Hamilton for making enquiries as to the health of Mrs Fielding. She is a little better but is weak and has had three further fainting fits.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 107 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 23 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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