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HAM/1/12/53

Note from Charlotte Finch to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text


Dear Miʃs Hamilton

      I am grieved at the heart to
have so melancholly an Answer
to ʃend to the Note I recd. yesterday from
you of Enquiry after P. Octavius; he
died last night, & indeed from the
time he was taken so very ill there
never were any hopes of his recovery
      I am ever
                             Most Sincerely Yrs.
                                       C.Finch
Sunday Morng
4 May 1783

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Dear Miss Hamilton

      I am grieved at the heart to
have so melancholy an Answer
to send to the Note I received yesterday from
you of Enquiry after Prince Octavius; he
died last night, & indeed from the
time he was taken so very ill there
never were any hopes of his recovery
      I am ever
                             Most Sincerely Yours
                                       Charlotte Finch
Sunday Morning

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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 to Mary Hamilton

Shelfmark: HAM/1/12/53

Correspondence Details

Sender: Lady Charlotte Finch (née Fermor)

Place sent: unknown

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: unknown

Date sent:

Letter Description

Summary: Note from Charlotte Finch to Mary Hamilton, relating to the death of Prince Octavius.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 63 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: Tino Oudesluijs, editorial team (completed 15 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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