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HAM/1/12/67

Note from Charlotte Finch to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text


My Dear Miʃs Hamilton,
      They have prevail'd on me at last to be
of the Water Party to Hammersmith to convey Lady
Louisa Clayton there, & as the Evening is so fine
that the Princeʃses will hardly come in long be-
-fore their bed time, I hope they will excuse me
I may be back before their Majestys return, if
not, & I shd. be ask'd for, you will be so good to say
where I am gone.
                             Ever Affly. Yrs.
                                       C.Finch
7 o'Clock
      Wednesday Evening




To
Miʃs
Hamilton[1]

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Notes


 1. The direction is split in two, with different orientations, by unfolding.

Normalised Text


My Dear Miss Hamilton,
      They have prevailed on me at last to be
of the Water Party to Hammersmith to convey Lady
Louisa Clayton there, & as the Evening is so fine
that the Princesses will hardly come in long before
 their bed time, I hope they will excuse me
I may be back before their Majestys return, if
not, & I should be asked for, you will be so good to say
where I am gone.
                             Ever Affectionately Yours
                                       Charlotte Finch
7 o'Clock
      Wednesday Evening




To
Miss
Hamilton

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 1. The direction is split in two, with different orientations, by unfolding.

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/1/12/67

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 is to carry Lady Louisa Clayton to the ‘Water Party’ at Hammersmith and notes that as the weather is so good the princesses will not come in long before her bed-time so she hopes that they will excuse her. She may be back before the King and Queen but if not asks Hamilton to inform them where she is if asked for.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 89 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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