Unlocking the Mary Hamilton papers

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HAM/1/12/59

Note from Charlotte Finch (née Fermor) to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text


My Dear Miʃs H.
      I had charming Accounts last Night from home,
as well as a long Letter from her Majesty, with this little
one enclosed for you.[1] I have so much writing on my
hands to day that I cannot attend the Morning Walk
as usual, so send you the Keys.
                             Yrs. Ever
                                  C. F.

      Eastbourne


To
      Miʃs Hamilton

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Notes


 1. The enclosed note could possibly be HAM/1/1/2/4, dated 30 August 1780.

Normalised Text


My Dear Miss Hamilton
      I had charming Accounts last Night from home,
as well as a long Letter from her Majesty, with this little
one enclosed for you. I have so much writing on my
hands to day that I cannot attend the Morning Walk
as usual, so send you the Keys.
                             Yours Ever
                                  Charlotte Finch

     


To
      Miss Hamilton

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 1. The enclosed note could possibly be HAM/1/1/2/4, dated 30 August 1780.

Metadata

Library References

Repository: John Rylands Research Institute and Library, University of Manchester

Archive: Mary Hamilton Papers

Item title: Note from Charlotte Finch (née Fermor) to Mary Hamilton

Shelfmark: HAM/1/12/59

Correspondence Details

Sender: Lady Charlotte Finch (née Fermor)

Place sent: Eastbourne

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: Eastbourne

Date sent: between June and October 1780
notBefore June 1780 (precision: high)
notAfter October 1780 (precision: high)

Letter Description

Summary: Note from Charlotte Finch to Mary Hamilton. She encloses a note for the Queen with her note to Hamilton and writes that she has much writing to do today so she is unable to take her usual walk ‘so send you the keys’.
    Dated at Eastbourne.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 59 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 28 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: 24 February 2025

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