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HAM/1/12/58

Note from Charlotte Finch to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text


My Dear Miʃs Hamilton

      I rejoice most sincerely to hear from
Dr Turton that you are getting so much better every
day & wish it was in my power to tell you so in
person. I hope if there is any thing that you wd.
wish to have & that I can procure you will let
me know it. Pʃs Augusta you hear so constantly
of from yr Doctor that I do not enter into parti-
-culars
about her, but she is charmingly to day
& they are impatient to get her into the Country
for the Air, wch. they hope will quite restore her.
My Daughters send their kindest Complimts &
we all hope for a good Account of you from my
Dear Miʃs Hamilton
                             Yrs. Ever Affcte &c &c
                                       CFinch
Tuesday Evening[1]


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Normalised Text


My Dear Miss Hamilton

      I rejoice most sincerely to hear from
Dr Turton that you are getting so much better every
day & wish it was in my power to tell you so in
person. I hope if there is any thing that you would
wish to have & that I can procure you will let
me know it. Princess Augusta you hear so constantly
of from your Doctor that I do not enter into particulars
about her, but she is charmingly to day
& they are impatient to get her into the Country
for the Air, which they hope will quite restore her.
My Daughters send their kindest Compliments &
we all hope for a good Account of you from my
Dear Miss Hamilton
                             Yours Ever Affectionate &c &c
                                       Charlotte Finch
Tuesday Evening


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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/1/12/58

Correspondence Details

Sender: Lady Charlotte Finch (née Fermor)

Place sent: unknown

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: unknown

Date sent: not after 1782
notAfter 1782 (precision: high)

Letter Description

Summary: Note from Charlotte Finch to Mary Hamilton. She rejoices to hear from Dr Turton that Hamilton is getting much better each day and wishes she could say so in person. She asks Hamilton to let her know if she can provide anything for her. Finch will not go in to detail about Princess Augusta’s health as Hamilton will know all from Dr Turton but she writes that she is looking ‘charming’ today and that they [presumably the King and Queen] are impatient to get her to the Country for the air.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 134 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: Cassandra Ulph, editorial team (completed 13 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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