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HAM/1/15/2/23(2)

Letter from Mary Hamilton to Charlotte Margaret Gunning

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                                                         Kew. Thursday 21st
                                                         August 1782



My Drst. friend

      The melancholy scene closed by the
Death of the Dr. Child Yesterday at
5 o'Clock -- the K & Q have been
deeply afflicted -- they are now thank
God more composed & I trust they
will not suffer in their health.
they quitted Windsor this Morng.
at ten o'Clock & intend staying here
till Friday Sen̄ight. I have in
Charge the five Pʃs's. & Prince
Octavious
-- Ldy. C F. & Miʃs G- &c
remain at W. -- Mlle. Moula is
here to attend ye. little ones.
Prince Alfred will be inter'd privately
in Westminster Abbey next Tuesday.
      I have not yet recover'd my
self sufficiently to be able to add
more at present than that I am Ever Yours
                                                         M H



My letters will be forwarded from W——
daily
I wrote a few lines to Yo. ye. 19th.

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                                                         Kew. Thursday 21st
                                                         August 1782



My Dearest friend

      The melancholy scene closed by the
Death of the Dear Child Yesterday at
5 o'Clock -- the King & Queen have been
deeply afflicted -- they are now thank
God more composed & I trust they
will not suffer in their health.
they quitted Windsor this Morning
at ten o'Clock & intend staying here
till Friday Sennight. I have in
Charge the five Princesses & Prince
Octavius -- Lady Charlotte Finch & Miss G- &c
remain at Windsor -- Mademoiselle Moula is
here to attend the little ones.
Prince Alfred will be interred privately
in Westminster Abbey next Tuesday.
      I have not yet recovered my
self sufficiently to be able to add
more at present than that I am Ever Yours
                                                         Mary Hamilton



My letters will be forwarded from Windsor
daily
I wrote a few lines to you the 19th.

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Library References

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

Archive: Mary Hamilton Papers

Item title: Letter from Mary Hamilton to Charlotte Margaret Gunning

Shelfmark: HAM/1/15/2/23(2)

Correspondence Details

Sender: Mary Hamilton

Place sent: Kew

Addressee: Charlotte Margaret Digby (née Gunning)

Place received: unknown

Date sent: 21 August 1782

Letter Description

Summary: In this letter, dated 21 August 1782, Hamilton informs Gunning of the death of Prince Alfred. She details the funeral arrangements for the Prince and writes on the King and Queen.
    Dated at Kew.
    Original reference No. 20.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 144 words

Transliteration Information

Editorial declaration: First edited in the project 'Image to Text' (David Denison & Nuria Yáñez-Bouza, 2013-2019), now incorporated 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: XML version: Research Assistant funding in 2014/15 and 2015/16 provided by the Department of Linguistics and English Language, University of Manchester.

Research assistant: Donald Alasdair Morrison, undergraduate student, University of Manchester

Transliterator: Rachael Lunt, undergraduate student, University of Manchester (submitted November 2014)

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: 28 April 2023

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