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HAM/1/12/26

Note from Charlotte Finch to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text


My Dear Miʃs Hamilton

      I enclose two Letters & add a few Lines from
myself to thank you for yours. I had already told
Brawn what the Queen said to me about him, he is
gone home but his poor Child is dead Compton aʃsists
Powel till he returns. All the dear Children here are
well, & we are just now preparing for a Commerce Party,[1]
to which the 3 Princes are invited & little Princeʃs
Mary
, who is to teach Me as being the Youngest in the Company


her Roy Hʃs Pʃs Sophie breakfasted with me this Morng.
at St James's, & were in charming Spirits. The rest are all
well. This is the only News you can expect from Me.
                             who am Ever most Sincerely & Affly. Yrs.
                                                         C Finch
Queen's House
      Octr. 18th. 1780 --



To
Miʃs Hamilton
      Queens Lodge
           Windsor

                             [2]

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Notes


 1. 'Commerce' was a gambling card game popular in the eighteenth century.
 2. Below the address is an intact seal, and at the top of the page are the remains of two postage marks.

Normalised Text


My Dear Miss Hamilton

      I enclose two Letters & add a few Lines from
myself to thank you for yours. I had already told
Brawn what the Queen said to me about him, he is
gone home but his poor Child is dead Compton assists
Powel till he returns. All the dear Children here are
well, & we are just now preparing for a Commerce Party,
to which the 3 Princes are invited & little Princess
Mary, who is to teach Me as being the Youngest in the Company


her Royal Highness Princess Sophie breakfasted with me this Morning
at St James's, & were in charming Spirits. The rest are all
well. This is the only News you can expect from Me.
                             who am Ever most Sincerely & Affectionately Yours
                                                         Charlotte Finch
Queen's House
      October 18th. 1780 --



To
Miss Hamilton
      Queens Lodge
           Windsor

                            

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 1. 'Commerce' was a gambling card game popular in the eighteenth century.
 2. Below the address is an intact seal, and at the top of the page are the remains of two postage marks.

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/1/12/26

Correspondence Details

Sender: Lady Charlotte Finch (née Fermor)

Place sent: London

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: Windsor

Date sent: 18 October 1780

Letter Description

Summary: Note from Charlotte Finch to Mary Hamilton. She writes on general news on the Royal children and household. She informs Hamilton that 'Brown' has gone home but that his child has died and another member of staff will assist until his return. She notes that all the children are well and she is preparing for a commerce party where the three princes are invited as well as and Princess Mary. Princess Sophia breakfasted with Finch that morning and was in charming spirits.
    Dated at Queen's House.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 143 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 16 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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