Diplomatic Text
1781
I found the inclosed
at my return from the
Queens House.
Her Majesty had done
me the honor of coming
to my apartments after
ye. Drawing Room, & not
meeting wth: me left
this writing upon my table.
“Tell Miʃs Hamilton I hope soon to
answer her letter, she makes me
guilty of breaking a com̄andment, for
I envy her writing so well”
Extract of a letter (wch. Lady Charlotte
Finch gave me) from her Majesty
Sea Houses East Bourne Suʃsex
July 1780
red text is normalised and/or unformatted in other panel)
Normalised Text
1781
I found the enclosed
at my return from the
Queens House.
Her Majesty had done
me the honour of coming
to my apartments after
the Drawing Room, & not
meeting with me left
this writing upon my table.
“Tell Miss Hamilton I hope soon to
answer her letter, she makes me
guilty of breaking a commandment, for
I envy her writing so well”
Extract of a letter (which Lady Charlotte
Finch gave me) from her Majesty
Sea Houses East Bourne Sussex
July 1780
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: Note from Queen Charlotte to Mary Hamilton
Shelfmark: HAM/1/1/2/6
Correspondence Details
Sender: Queen Charlotte
Place sent: Eastbourne
Addressee: Mary Hamilton
Place received: unknown
Date sent: 29 March 1781
Letter Description
Summary: Note written by Mary Hamilton stating that she found the note below on return from the Queen's House. 'Her Majesty had done me the honor of coming to my apartments after ye Drawing Room, & not meeting w[i]th me left this writing upon my table'.
Queen Charlotte writes: 'Tell Miss Hamilton I hope soon to answer her letter, she makes me guilty of breaking a commandment, for I envy her writing so well'. Below this is written 'extract of a letter (w[hi]ch Lady Charlotte Finch gave me) from her Majesty' dated July 1780.
Length: 2 sheets, 87 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: Emily Aston, 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
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Revision date: 2 November 2021