Diplomatic Text
My Dear Miʃs Hamilton
I have hunted every where in vain for
the Letter to the Dʃs of Devonshire to send you, but not
succeeding I determin'd you shd. not be disappointed
& have sent out for One, wch. is at yr Service, & I hope
will amuse you. I am happy to think you go on
mending, & shall rejoice to ʃee you well again amongst
us, (as we all shall,) but beg you not to throw away a
thought upon my Attendence, in which I am
happy to have been so Succeʃsful with Pʃs Augusta
who I think will go out of Town in perfect health
& beauty. Mrs Feilding & Harriet send their Love
I am Ever my Dear Miʃs Hamilton
with the Sincerest Affection
Yrs.
CFinch
St James's
Thursday 3 o'Clock
To
Miʃs Hamilton
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Normalised Text
My Dear Miss Hamilton
I have hunted every where in vain for
the Letter to the Duchess of Devonshire to send you, but not
succeeding I determined you should not be disappointed
& have sent out for One, which is at your Service, & I hope
will amuse you. I am happy to think you go on
mending, & shall rejoice to see you well again amongst
us, (as we all shall,) but beg you not to throw away a
thought upon my Attendance, in which I am
happy to have been so Successful with Princess Augusta
who I think will go out of Town in perfect health
& beauty. Mrs Feilding & Harriet send their Love
I am Ever my Dear Miss Hamilton
with the Sincerest Affection
Yours
Charlotte Finch
St James's
Thursday 3 o'Clock
To
Miss Hamilton
quotations, spellings, uncorrected forms, split words, abbreviations, formatting)
Metadata
Library References
Repository: John Rylands Research Institute and Library, University of Manchester
Archive: Mary Hamilton Papers
Item title: Letter from Charlotte Finch to Mary Hamilton
Shelfmark: HAM/1/12/70
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: Letter from Charlotte Finch to Mary Hamilton. Finch has hunted everywhere but is unable to find the letter to the Duchess of Devonshire to send to Hamilton. She does not want Hamilton to be disappointed so she has sent out for one and she hopes it will amuse Hamilton. Finch will be happy when Hamilton regains her health and writes that she should not worry about ‘her attendance’ and reports that Princess Augusta will soon be in perfect health.
Dated at St James’s [London].
Length: 1 sheet, 139 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