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Recd. in Clarges Street
Tuesday 18 1783
My Dear Miʃs Hamilton
On mentioning to her Majesty the Pavillion Miʃs
Cathcart wishes to present to Pʃs Elizabeth, she said She
recollected the Circumstance very well, & that Miʃs
Cathcart was to have brought it herself, but as She is
not in Town the Queen desires you wd. send it to me
at St James's.
I am sorry I have not yet had it in my power to call
on you in a Morning, but will take the very first Op-
-portunity of doing so, & you will allow when I tell you
my various & new Occupations, that I have been
fully employ'd. I am Ever
Yrs. most Sincerely
C.Finch
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Normalised Text
Tuesday
My Dear Miss Hamilton
On mentioning to her Majesty the Pavilion Miss
Cathcart wishes to present to Princess Elizabeth, she said She
recollected the Circumstance very well, & that Miss
Cathcart was to have brought it herself, but as She is
not in Town the Queen desires you would send it to me
at St James's.
I am sorry I have not yet had it in my power to call
on you in a Morning, but will take the very first Opportunity
of doing so, & you will allow when I tell you
my various & new Occupations, that I have been
fully employed. I am Ever
Yours most Sincerely
Charlotte Finch
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Metadata
Library References
Repository: John Rylands Research Institute and Library, University of Manchester
Archive: Mary Hamilton Papers
Item title: Letter from Charlotte Finch to Mary Hamilton
Shelfmark: HAM/1/12/52(1)
Correspondence Details
Sender: Lady Charlotte Finch (née Fermor)
Place sent: London
Addressee: Mary Hamilton
Place received: London
Date sent: 4 March 1783
Letter Description
Summary: This side of the sheet contains a letter from Charlotte Finch to Mary Hamilton, dated 14 March 1783 at St James’s.
Finch says that she mentioned to the Queen about the pavilion that Miss Cathcart wishes to present to Princess Elizabeth. She said that Miss Cathcart could bring it herself but as she is out of town the Queen desires Hamilton to send it to St James’s.
The other side of the sheet contains HAM/1/12/52(2).
Length: 1 sheet, 117 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
Copyright: Transcriptions, notes and TEI/XML © the editors
Revision date: 28 April 2023