Unlocking the Mary Hamilton papers

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HAM/1/12/66

Note from Charlotte Finch to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text


      My Dear Miʃs Hamilton, do excuse me to the dear
Princeʃses tonight, for I have got a head ach & am
so Sleepy I shd. be very bad Company if I came
                                                         Ever Yrs:
                                                                   C:Finch
The Princes have but just left me
after drinking Tea here.

½ past 8.



Miʃs Hamilton[1]

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Notes


 1. The address appears in the centre of p.2.

Normalised Text


      My Dear Miss Hamilton, do excuse me to the dear
Princesses tonight, for I have got a head ache & am
so Sleepy I should be very bad Company if I came
                                                         Ever Yours
                                                                   Charlotte Finch
The Princes have but just left me
after drinking Tea here.



Miss Hamilton

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 1. The address appears in the centre of p.2.

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/1/12/66

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 sends her excuses for not visiting with the princesses that night as she is feeling unwell.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 49 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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