Diplomatic Text
My Dear Miʃs Hamilton I kept your Servant to write a
Line that you might know our Situation which you saw so
good as to enquire after. Little Augustas Fever is very much
leʃsen'd thō not quite gone, but when one considers how very
high it was She is better than one cd. have hoped in the time.
Mrs Feilding is pretty well. My Complaint was very pla-
-guing all Yesterday but Dr Turton aʃsures me tis in the
right way to go off, (wch. must be attended with Soreneʃs
beyond what you can imagine) I have not been able
to wear any thing but my loose bed Gown. You cannot
think how anxious I am to get it into a State that will
allow of my appearing at Kew House, but yet am Sensible
if I do any thing to inflence it, I shall only make it
worse & retard the Cure, & I know the Queens Goodneʃs
will consider this. I beg my Duty & best Affections to
all the dear Children & remain
Ever most faithfully Yrs.
C.Finch
Wednesday Morng.
I have scrawld sadly but
tis my right Arm that you
know is so disabled.[1]
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Normalised Text
My Dear Miss Hamilton I kept your Servant to write a
Line that you might know our Situation which you saw so
good as to enquire after. Little Augustas Fever is very much
lessened though not quite gone, but when one considers how very
high it was She is better than one could have hoped in the time.
Mrs Feilding is pretty well. My Complaint was very plaguing
all Yesterday but Dr Turton assures me tis in the
right way to go off, (which must be attended with Soreness
beyond what you can imagine) I have not been able
to wear any thing but my loose bed Gown. You cannot
think how anxious I am to get it into a State that will
allow of my appearing at Kew House, but yet am Sensible
if I do any thing to influence it, I shall only make it
worse & retard the Cure, & I know the Queens Goodness
will consider this. I beg my Duty & best Affections to
all the dear Children & remain
Ever most faithfully Yours
Charlotte Finch
Wednesday Morning
I have scrawled sadly but
tis my right Arm that you
know is so disabled.
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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/1/12/23
Correspondence Details
Sender: Lady Charlotte Finch (née Fermor)
Place sent: unknown
Addressee: Mary Hamilton
Place received: unknown
Date sent: 24 May 1780
Letter Description
Summary: Letter from Charlotte Finch to Mary Hamilton. She updates Hamilton on her own and Mrs Fielding’s health. Finch longs to be back at Kew but if she was to go she knows that it would make her health worse.
Length: 1 sheet, 201 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
Cataloguer: John Hodgson, Head of Special Collections, John Rylands Research Institute and Library
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Revision date: 2 November 2021