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HAM/1/12/28

Note from Charlotte Finch to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text


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




To
Miʃs Hamilton
      Queen's Lodge
           Windsor

                             [1]

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Notes


 1. Below the address is an intact seal, as well as the remains of a 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 December 11th: 1780




To
Miss Hamilton
      Queen's Lodge
           Windsor

                            

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



 1. Below the address is an intact seal, as well as the remains of a stamp.

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/1/12/28

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, 87 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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