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HAM/1/12/41

Note from Charlotte Finch to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text


My Dear Miʃs Hamilton

      I shall only attempt adding a few Lines
to thank you for yours, & for the enclosed Acct. of Mr & Mrs
Graham's safe arrival, which I sincerely rejoice in. I beg you
will deliver the enclosed for her Royl. Hʃs. from whom you will
hear a very good Account of Prince Alfred.
                             Yrs. ever most Sincerely
                                       CFinch

Deal Castle June 17th. 1782


Miʃs Hamilton[1]
      Queens Lodge
           Windsor
 --- How[2]
[3]
[4]
[5]

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Notes


 1. Free frank in red ink.
 2. Signature of Richard Howe, provider of free frank for postage. At the time of this letter he was no longer an MP, but after having been created Viscount Howe in the Peerage of Great Britain on 20 April 1782, he could have sat in the House of Lords since then and would have been allowed to continue to use free franks. Another explanation is that Charlotte Finch had the free frank from a time when Richard Howe was still MP for Dartmouth and only used it after he was created Viscount. At this point in time the free frank did not have to be signed and dated.
 3. Postmark 'DEAL' in black ink.
 4. Part of postal stamp (probably Bishop mark) in black ink.
 5. Seal, in black wax.

Normalised Text


My Dear Miss Hamilton

      I shall only attempt adding a few Lines
to thank you for yours, & for the enclosed Account of Mr & Mrs
Graham's safe arrival, which I sincerely rejoice in. I beg you
will deliver the enclosed for her Royal Highness from whom you will
hear a very good Account of Prince Alfred.
                             Yours ever most Sincerely
                                       Charlotte Finch

Deal Castle June 17th. 1782


Miss Hamilton
      Queens Lodge
           Windsor



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 1. Free frank in red ink.
 2. Signature of Richard Howe, provider of free frank for postage. At the time of this letter he was no longer an MP, but after having been created Viscount Howe in the Peerage of Great Britain on 20 April 1782, he could have sat in the House of Lords since then and would have been allowed to continue to use free franks. Another explanation is that Charlotte Finch had the free frank from a time when Richard Howe was still MP for Dartmouth and only used it after he was created Viscount. At this point in time the free frank did not have to be signed and dated.
 3. Postmark 'DEAL' in black ink.
 4. Part of postal stamp (probably Bishop mark) in black ink.
 5. Seal, in black wax.

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/1/12/41

Correspondence Details

Sender: Lady Charlotte Finch (née Fermor)

Place sent: Deal

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: Windsor

Date sent: 17 June 1782

Letter Description

Summary: Note from Charlotte Finch to Mary Hamilton. She thanks Hamilton for her account of the safe arrival of Mr and Mrs Graham, in which she rejoices. The note also relates to Prince Alfred.
    Dated at Deal Castle [Kent].
   

Length: 1 sheet, 73 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 5 May 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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