Diplomatic Text
My Dear Miʃs Hamilton
I am much obliged to you for saying you would
call here if I would let you know the time to find me;.
I have this day put on my Mourning,[1] so that henceforward
I begin my Attendance as usual at the Queens Houʃe.
therefore can only say any Morning (after tomorrow) that
you can call before I go there (which you know is a quar.
before One,) I shall be very glad to ʃee you. What other
time I have at home I now devote so entirely to Mrs
Feilding, that I deny myself the pleasure of receiving
any of my Friends, till she shall be able to ʃee ʃome
of hers.
I am ever most Sincerely
Yours. CFinch
St James's. Sunday Night.
19th. Jany. 1783
Finch[2]
To
Miʃs Hamilton[3]
red text is normalised and/or unformatted in other panel)
Notes
1. On 11 January 1783 Charlotte's son-in-law Charles Fielding had died from an infected wound received during the Battle of Cape Spartel off Gibraltar (20 October 1782).
2. This annotation is written vertically at the bottom left of the page.
3. This line appears on the back of the letter at the bottom of the page. The addressee's name is split in two, with two different orientations, by unfolding.
Normalised Text
My Dear Miss Hamilton
I am much obliged to you for saying you would
call here if I would let you know the time to find me;.
I have this day put on my Mourning, so that henceforward
I begin my Attendance as usual at the Queens House.
therefore can only say any Morning (after tomorrow) that
you can call before I go there (which you know is a quarter
before One,) I shall be very glad to see you. What other
time I have at home I now devote so entirely to Mrs
Feilding, that I deny myself the pleasure of receiving
any of my Friends, till she shall be able to see some
of hers.
I am ever most Sincerely
Yours. Charlotte Finch
St James's. Sunday Night.
19th. January 1783
To
Miss Hamilton
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 to Mary Hamilton
Shelfmark: HAM/1/12/51
Correspondence Details
Sender: Lady Charlotte Finch (née Fermor)
Place sent: London
Addressee: Mary Hamilton
Place received: unknown
Date sent: 19 January 1783
Letter Description
Summary: Note from Charlotte Finch to Mary Hamilton, relating to a visit from Hamilton.
Dated at St James’s [London].
Length: 1 sheet, 135 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 27 May 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: 2 November 2021