Single Letter

HAM/1/12/52(1)

Letter from Charlotte Finch to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text

[1]
Recd. in Clarges Street

St. James's. March 4th. 1783
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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Notes


 1. This letter was originally catalogued together with HAM/1/12/52(2) as HAM/1/12/52.

Normalised Text



St. James's. March 4th.
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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 1. This letter was originally catalogued together with HAM/1/12/52(2) as HAM/1/12/52.

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

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