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HAM/1/12/71

Letter from Charlotte Finch to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text


      My Dear Miʃs Hamilton    Nobody can be more Sensible than
I am of all your kind Attentions to me, nor set a higher Value
on the Motive of them, wch. is the Goodneʃs of yr heart; the greatest
mark of kindneʃs you can shew me, is to take care of your-
-self, by wch. means I shall the sooner have anthe Opportunity
 ------ of renewing the happy Connexion in wch. we are engaged. I
mention'd to their Majesties to day, yr Regret about being de-
-prived so long from attending yr Duty, they both exprest
great Concern that you had suffer'd so much, & hopes that
you wd. do every thing to re-establish yr health that was
neceʃsary, & seem'd to think the going out of Town a
very proper Step towards it, when you was able to do it.
The Princeʃses all send their Love. & now my dear I
must repeat that I cannot bear you shd. be uneasy abt.
my Attendance; this Evening I shall have, as Miʃs Goldsworthy
is above Stairs to day, & as to the future Ones, I shall
flatter myself I have not many more of my two weekly pay to
lose, as very probably Pʃs Augusta's Stay in the Country
may not be long. She is vastly well & Sets out tomorrow
at 12 o'Clock, Pʃs Mary & Mrs Cheveley wth. Miʃs Goldsworthy make
the Partie quarrée.[1]     believe me Ever most Affly. Yrs. C.Finch


To
      Miʃs Hamilton[2]

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Notes


 1. Usually written partie carrée, meaning a party of four people.
 2. This appears at the bottom left of the page.

Normalised Text


      My Dear Miss Hamilton    Nobody can be more Sensible than
I am of all your kind Attentions to me, nor set a higher Value
on the Motive of them, which is the Goodness of your heart; the greatest
mark of kindness you can show me, is to take care of yourself
, by which means I shall the sooner have the Opportunity
of renewing the happy Connexion in which we are engaged. I
mentioned to their Majesties to day, your Regret about being deprived
 so long from attending your Duty, they both expressed
great Concern that you had suffered so much, & hopes that
you would do every thing to re-establish your health that was
necessary, & seemed to think the going out of Town a
very proper Step towards it, when you was able to do it.
The Princesses all send their Love. & now my dear I
must repeat that I cannot bear you should be uneasy about
my Attendance; this Evening I shall have, as Miss Goldsworthy
is above Stairs to day, & as to the future Ones, I shall
flatter myself I have not many more of my two weekly pay to
lose, as very probably Princess Augusta's Stay in the Country
may not be long. She is vastly well & Sets out tomorrow
at 12 o'Clock, Princess Mary & Mrs Cheveley with Miss Goldsworthy make
the Partie quarrée.     believe me Ever most Affectionately Yours Charlotte Finch


To
      Miss Hamilton

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 1. Usually written partie carrée, meaning a party of four people.
 2. This appears at the bottom left of the page.

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/1/12/71

Correspondence Details

Sender: Lady Charlotte Finch (née Fermor)

Place sent: unknown

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: unknown

Date sent: between June 1777 and November 1782
notBefore 1 June 1777 (precision: high)
notAfter November 1782 (precision: high)

Letter Description

Summary: Letter from Charlotte Finch to Mary Hamilton. She writes that the greatest kindness Hamilton can show to her is by taking care of herself. Finch had mentioned to the King and Queen about her being so long deprived of her duties and both expressed concern that Hamilton had suffered so much and they wished for the recovery of her health and considered that leaving town would be a step towards her recovery. The princesses send their love to Hamilton. Finch continues the letter by updating Hamilton on the princesses and their governesses.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 242 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 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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