HAM/1/12/36

Note from Charlotte Finch (née Fermor) to Mary Hamilton

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Diplomatic Text

My dear Miʃs Hamilton
      I am a poor dumb Sufferer, for I dare not speak, or w^d. have
beg'd you to have call'd upon me; I have so much Pain & Tender-
-ness in my Mouth & Face, as well as Sore Throat, that I can
hardly say I am better, thō I rather hope I am from the few
Grains of James's Powders^[1] I took last Night. My Com-
-plaint certainly is the most thorough Cold ever any poor Crea-
-ture had. I hope your Pain in your face has not conti-
-nued.
      Y^rs. ever most Sincerely
                             C.F.
16^th March 1782^[2]

Miʃs Hamilton^[3]

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Notes

1. ‘Dr James's Fever Powder’ was a medicine patented by the English physician Robert James in 1746. It claimed to cure fevers and various other maladies.
2. This annotation appears to the left of Charlotte Finch's signature.
3. This is written at the bottom left of p.2.

Normalised Text

My dear Miss Hamilton
      I am a poor dumb Sufferer, for I dare not speak, or would have
begged you to have called upon me; I have so much Pain & Tenderness
in my Mouth & Face, as well as Sore Throat, that I can
hardly say I am better, though I rather hope I am from the few
Grains of James's Powders I took last Night. My Complaint
certainly is the most thorough Cold ever any poor Creature
had. I hope your Pain in your face has not continued.
      Yours ever most Sincerely
                             Charlotte Finch

Miss Hamilton

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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 (née Fermor) to Mary Hamilton

Shelfmark: HAM/1/12/36

Correspondence Details

Sender: Lady Charlotte Finch (née Fermor)

Place sent: unknown

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: unknown

Date sent: 16 March 1782

Letter Description

Summary: Note from Charlotte Finch to Mary Hamilton. She writes that she is a ‘poor dumb sufferer’, for she has lost her voice. She would otherwise have begged Hamilton to visit her. She has much pain in her mouth and face and a sore throat. She also makes enquiries on Hamilton’s health, as she too has been experiencing a pain in her face.

Length: 1 sheet, 98 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, M^rs. or M^rs may occur, but M.^rs or M^r.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

Revision date: 5 April 2026

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