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HAM/1/14/62(1)

Note from Mary Hamilton to Charles de Guiffardière

Diplomatic Text

[1]
      When ye family quit Windsor, I quit ye. family
My friends write in their approbation of my
conduct -- I have applied for leave to retire.
I I quit my place with honor to myself. & I hope
I shall only leave friends and well wishers
behind me.
      The Pʃs's must not know of this
12th. Novbr. 1782

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Notes


 1. The note by de Guiffardière on the other side of the sheet is transcribed as HAM/1/14/62(2).

Normalised Text


      When the family quit Windsor, I quit the family
My friends write in their approbation of my
conduct -- I have applied for leave to retire.
I quit my place with honour to myself. I hope
I shall only leave friends and well wishers
behind me.
      The Princesses must not know of this
12th. November 1782

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 1. The note by de Guiffardière on the other side of the sheet is transcribed as HAM/1/14/62(2).

Metadata

Library References

Repository: John Rylands Research Institute and Library, University of Manchester

Archive: Mary Hamilton Papers

Item title: Note from Mary Hamilton to Charles de Guiffardière

Shelfmark: HAM/1/14/62(1)

Correspondence Details

Sender: Mary Hamilton

Place sent: unknown

Addressee: Charles de Guiffardière

Place received: unknown

Date sent: 12 November 1782

Letter Description

Summary: Note from Mary Hamilton to Charles de Guiffardière, relating to Hamilton’s resignation from court. She writes that when ‘the family quit Windsor, I quit the family [...] [and she hopes that she will] only leave friends’. She notes that the princesses are not to know of this.
    On the other side of the sheet is a note from de Guiffardière to Hamilton, transcribed as HAM/1/14/62(2). One is clearly a reply to the other, but it is not clear which way round.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 55 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 8 December 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: 25 April 2023

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