Diplomatic Text
Dear Madam
I have but a moment to
reply to your Letter; but I have great satis:
:faction to be able to inform you that the King
is better & has been continuing to amend these
two last days: the Physicians pronounce him to be
out of danger.
I can give you no informati:
on with respect to the Queen & Princeʃses: as the
Queens Palace is barred against all visitors of
every description. If I delay another
moment I lose the Post.
Believe me Dear Madm
Yours most faithfully
J. Exeter
Fludyer St[1]
Feb: 18th. 1804
London February eighteenth 1804
Leighton House
Bedfordshire
free
J. Exeter
Ansd 20th-[2]
[3]
[4]
red text is normalised and/or unformatted in other panel)
Notes
1. Fludyer Street in Westminster ran parallel and to the south of modern Downing Street. It was named for the ground-landlord, Sir Samuel Fludyer. See Old and New London, Vol. 4 (Cassell, Petter & Galpin, 1878), chapter 3, digitsed at British History Online.
2. This annotation is written vertically to the left of the address.
3. Remains of a Bishop mark.
4. Evidence of a seal in red wax, now missing.
Normalised Text
Dear Madam
I have but a moment to
reply to your Letter; but I have great satisfaction
to be able to inform you that the King
is better & has been continuing to amend these
two last days: the Physicians pronounce him to be
out of danger.
I can give you no information
with respect to the Queen & Princesses: as the
Queens Palace is barred against all visitors of
every description. If I delay another
moment I lose the Post.
Believe me Dear Madam
Yours most faithfully
John Exeter
Fludyer Street
February 18th. 1804
London February eighteenth 1804
Leighton House
Bedfordshire
free
John Exeter
quotations, spellings, uncorrected forms, split words, abbreviations, formatting)
Notes
Metadata
Library References
Repository: John Rylands Research Institute and Library, University of Manchester
Archive: Mary Hamilton Papers
Item title: Letter from John Fisher to Mary Hamilton
Shelfmark: HAM/1/7/6/21
Correspondence Details
Sender: John Fisher
Place sent: London
Addressee: Mary Hamilton
Place received: Leighton Buzzard
Date sent: 18 February 1804
Letter Description
Summary: Letter from John Fisher to Mary Hamilton, relating to the health of King
George III. Fisher writes that the King's health is better and that the
physicians have pronounced him out of danger. He is unable to report on
the condition of the Queen or princesses as the 'Queen's Palace is barred
against all visitors of every description'.
Length: 1 sheet, 107 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: Cassandra Ulph, editorial team (completed 29 October 2020)
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