Diplomatic Text
[1]
My dear Miʃs Hamilton
I just add a few Lines to say, Prince Alfred
has a Rash, since Sunday Morning, his Royl Highneʃs is per-
-fectly well with it, & Hawkins says it will rather be of
Service to him then otherwise. The Uneasineʃs he had on
SaturdayFriday was probably owing to the Rash being coming
out.
Ever most Sincerely Yrs.
C Finch
I made out all my News to Pʃs Augusta for her Letter
Queen's Houʃe. Monday Evening Decbr: 11th: 1780
[2] [3]
To
Miʃs Hamilton
Queen's Lodge
Windsor
[4]
red text is normalised and/or unformatted in other panel)
Notes
1. This note belongs chronologically before HAM/1/12/27, which was catalogued out of sequence.
2. A large figure ‘6’ is written over the address, denoting postage due.
3. A partially visible postal stamp appears to show ‘11 DE’.
4. Below the address is an intact seal, as well as the remains of another stamp.
Normalised Text
My dear Miss Hamilton
I just add a few Lines to say, Prince Alfred
has a Rash, since Sunday Morning, his Royal Highness is perfectly
well with it, & Hawkins says it will rather be of
Service to him than otherwise. The Uneasiness he had on
Friday was probably owing to the Rash being coming
out.
Ever most Sincerely Yours
Charlotte Finch
I made out all my News to Princess Augusta for her Letter
Queen's House. Monday Evening
To
Miss Hamilton
Queen's Lodge
Windsor
quotations, spellings, uncorrected forms, split words, abbreviations, formatting)
Notes
Metadata
Library References
Repository: John Rylands Research Institute and Library, University of Manchester
Archive: Mary Hamilton Papers
Item title: Note from Charlotte Finch (née Fermor) to Mary Hamilton
Shelfmark: HAM/1/12/28
Correspondence Details
Sender: Lady Charlotte Finch (née Fermor)
Place sent: London
Addressee: Mary Hamilton
Place received: Windsor
Date sent: 11 December 1780
Letter Description
Summary: Note from Charlotte Finch to Mary Hamilton. She reports that Prince Alfred has a rash but is ‘perfectly well with it’ and suggests that the discomfort he had on Friday was probably owing to the oncoming rash.
Dated at Queen’s House.
Length: 1 sheet, 84 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
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Revision date: 8 August 2025