HAM/1/15/2/29
Fragments of letters and notes from Mary Hamilton to Charlotte Margaret Gunning (later Digby)
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Repository: John Rylands Research Institute and Library, University of Manchester
Archive: Mary Hamilton Papers
Item title: Fragments of letters and notes from Mary Hamilton to Charlotte Margaret Gunning (later Digby)
Shelfmark: HAM/1/15/2/29
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Summary: Three (originally four) fragments of letters and notes from Mary Hamilton to Charlotte Gunning.
In the first fragment, Hamilton writes that she is ill and can barely write,
and that the princes and two eldest princesses have also had the cold. The third
fragment concerns Miss Tryon, who Hamilton writes is good humoured but 'is
Tattling & has the qualities of a s[ie]ve, not able to retain any
thing'. Hamilton continues that she will always remain grateful
to her for introducing her to Gunning. The fourth fragment informs Gunning that the
Royal Family have gone to 'Babel' that morning and return on Monday
for dinner. Hamilton also writes with enquiries of her great aunt, Lady Mary
Colley, who is the sister of Charles Hamilton of Bath. These three fragments are undated.
What had been the second fragment, dated by an annotator as 30 Jun 1780, has been identified as the detached
last page of HAM/1/15/2/7, and its transcription has been added to that letter.
Original reference No. 26.
Length: 1 sheet, 7 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.
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: 12 May 2026
