Diplomatic Text
My Dear Miʃs Hamilton, I am entirely of Opinion that Pʃs. Eliz. had better
forbear walking this Morning, & indeed the Wind is so very troublesome
I have forbid the Coach for our usual Visit to Eastbourne Place. I am
very well except for a triffling Head-ach proceeding I believe from my
fixinghaving fix'd my Eyes so long together upon Objects so high & of such a glaring
White as the Cliffs you know are, but that will go off very soon & I
hope to be with her Rl. Hʃs. at Eleven o'Clock. till which time I wish
her to read her Psalms & Chapters, get a little by heart & work, or write
if she has any Letter in Contemplation for tomorrow[1] Ever most Affly. Yrs.
CFinch
21st. July 1780
East Bourne[2]
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Normalised Text
My Dear Miss Hamilton, I am entirely of Opinion that Princess Elizabeth had better
forbear walking this Morning, & indeed the Wind is so very troublesome
I have forbidden the Coach for our usual Visit to Eastbourne Place. I am
very well except for a trifling Headache proceeding I believe from my
having fixed my Eyes so long together upon Objects so high & of such a glaring
White as the Cliffs you know are, but that will go off very soon & I
hope to be with her Royal Highness at Eleven o'Clock. till which time I wish
her to read her Psalms & Chapters, get a little by heart & work, or write
if she has any Letter in Contemplation for tomorrow Ever most Affectionately Yours
Charlotte Finch
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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/1/12/24
Correspondence Details
Sender: Lady Charlotte Finch (née Fermor)
Place sent: unknown
Addressee: Mary Hamilton
Place received: unknown
Date sent: 21 July 1780
Letter Description
Summary: Note from Charlotte Finch to Mary Hamilton. She writes that because of the poor weather and strong winds she advises against Princess Elizabeth from taking a walk that morning and she has also refused that they go in the Coach for their usual visit to Eastbourne Place. Finch will be with her ‘Royal Highness’ at 11 o’clock and until that time she has directed her to read her Psalms and Chapters, ‘get a little by heart & work, or write if she has any Letters in Contemplation’.
Length: 1 sheet, 130 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