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HAM/1/12/61

Note from Charlotte Finch to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text


My Dear Miʃs Hamilton
      I should be much obliged to you if you would
let me have yt Chairman to day to bring the Young
Prince from the Queen's Houʃe. I wish them to be
here at One o'Clock when my Servant will give
them my Coats to put on, & they will bring the
Chair to the Queen's House. I must desire they
may wear your Hats.           Ever most Sincerely
                                                         Yrs.    CFinch
St James's Tuesday Morng.

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Normalised Text


My Dear Miss Hamilton
      I should be much obliged to you if you would
let me have your Chairman to day to bring the Young
Prince from the Queen's House. I wish them to be
here at One o'Clock when my Servant will give
them my Coats to put on, & they will bring the
Chair to the Queen's House. I must desire they
may wear your Hats.           Ever most Sincerely
                                                         Yours    Charlotte Finch
St James's Tuesday 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/1/12/61

Correspondence Details

Sender: Lady Charlotte Finch (née Fermor)

Place sent: London

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: unknown

Date sent: between June 1777 and November 1782
notBefore June 1777 (precision: high)
notAfter November 1782 (precision: high)

Letter Description

Summary: Note from Charlotte Finch to Mary Hamilton. She would be much obliged if Hamilton would let her have her chairmen today to bring the Prince from the Queen’s House. She requests them for 1 o’clock and notes that her servants will give them her coats to put on, though she asks that they wear Hamilton’s hats.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 78 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: 27 September 2023

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