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25 June 1781
Monday Morning.
My dear Miʃs Hamilton. The contents of Your letter
I am inclined to take as the effect of low Spirits
and therefore wont indulge You with an fentire[2] belief
of what You have said, at least let me still indulge
that thought for some time, and I beseech You not
to be too much dejected about Yourself as You will
find that, if poʃsible more precariouspernicious to Your Health
than real illneʃs, but should You (which I hope not)
continue some time hence of the same opinion
I must desire You not to mention it, until I
have ʃu succeeded in that disagreable task of pro-
viding myself with a Proper Person, aʃsuring You
that at all times I shall retain a proper regard
for Your Person and Merits.
Charlotte
25th: June 1781 Queens Lodge Windsor
To
Miʃs Hamilton
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Monday Morning.
My dear Miss Hamilton. The contents of Your letter
I am inclined to take as the effect of low Spirits
and therefore won't indulge You with an entire belief
of what You have said, at least let me still indulge
that thought for some time, and I beseech You not
to be too much dejected about Yourself as You will
find that, if possible more pernicious to Your Health
than real illness, but should You (which I hope not)
continue some time hence of the same opinion
I must desire You not to mention it, until I
have succeeded in that disagreeable task of providing
myself with a Proper Person, assuring You
that at all times I shall retain a proper regard
for Your Person and Merits.
Charlotte
To
Miss Hamilton
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Metadata
Library References
Repository: John Rylands Research Institute and Library, University of Manchester
Archive: Mary Hamilton Papers
Item title: Letter from Queen Charlotte to Mary Hamilton
Shelfmark: HAM/1/1/2/9
Correspondence Details
Sender: Queen Charlotte
Place sent: Windsor
Addressee: Mary Hamilton
Place received: unknown
Date sent: 25 June 1781
Letter Description
Summary: Queen Charlotte responds to Mary Hamilton's letter of the same date (HAM/1/1/2/8), noting that she interprets her resignation as the effect of 'low spirits' and that therefore she will not 'indulge you with an entire belief of what you have said'. She advises Hamilton not to be 'too much dejected about yourself as you will find that, is possible more pernicious to your Health than real illness'. She continues that if she 'in some time hence' still feels the same, which the Queen hopes will not be the case, then she asks her not to mention it until a new person is found. Dated Monday morning, Queen's Lodge [Windsor].
Length: 1 sheet, 133 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 2016/17 provided by The John Rylands Research Institute.
Research assistant: Isabella Formisano, former MA student, University of Manchester
Research assistant: Carla Seabra-Dacosta, MA student, University of Vigo
Transliterator: Andrew Gott, dissertation student, University of Manchester (submitted June 2012)
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