Single Letter

HAM/1/12/62

Note from Charlotte Finch to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text


Dear Miʃs Hamilton

      I hope you are not the
worse for our Interview Yesterday. if
it will not be inconvenient to you I shd.
wish to call on you for five minutes
before I go home; which will be at
a quarter before four.    I beg my
Complimts to Mrs. Hamilton & am
                             Yr. most Faithful
                                Humble Servt
                                   Charlotte Finch
Queen's Houʃe
      Sunday



      To
Miʃs
James Street[1]

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Notes


 1. The direction is split in two, with two different orientations, by unfolding, and presumably ‘Hamilton’ has then been lost after ‘Miſs’ with the part of the sheet torn away.

Normalised Text


Dear Miss Hamilton

      I hope you are not the
worse for our Interview Yesterday. if
it will not be inconvenient to you I should
wish to call on you for five minutes
before I go home; which will be at
a quarter before four.    I beg my
Compliments to Mrs. Hamilton & am
                             Your most Faithful
                                Humble Servant
                                   Charlotte Finch
Queen's House
      Sunday



      To
Miss
James Street

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 1. The direction is split in two, with two different orientations, by unfolding, and presumably ‘Hamilton’ has then been lost after ‘Miſs’ with the part of the sheet torn away.

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/1/12/62

Correspondence Details

Sender: Lady Charlotte Finch (née Fermor)

Place sent: London

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: London

Date sent: not after November 1778
notAfter November 1778 (precision: high)

Letter Description

Summary: Note from Charlotte Finch to Mary Hamilton. She hopes that Hamilton is not the worse after their interview of yesterday and arranges to call upon her.
    Dated at Queen’s House.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 67 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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