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HAM/1/11/21

Letter from Lady Dartrey (later Lady Cremorne) to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text


20


My Dr: Miʃs H.
      I have only a moment to tell you
their Majesties are well in health, & bear
their Affliction in a most edifying manner.[1]
      Ill send an ansr: to Mrs: Delany
when I return -- I can settle nothing now
but I hope to see her soon --      Yrs: sincerely
                                                         PD
Windsor
Sunday 11th. May 1783


pray give my kind Love to dr
Mrs: Carter, & tell her I hope to see her soon after
my return. I shall dreʃs in Town for Court on Thursday,
      & I wish you & She wld. call on Me --

▼

I saw ye: sweet Pʃs: Sophia yesterday, she is
quite well, & looks charmingly.

To
      Miʃs Hamilton[2]
           Clarges Street
                near Piccadilly
                             London[3][4]
[5]
[6]

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Notes


 1. Prince Octavius, the thirteenth child of King George and Queen Charlotte, died on 3 May 1783, aged 4.
 2. A large manuscript figure 2 in brown ink, denoting postage due. appears to the right of the address, 3 lines deep.
 3. The address appears in the middle of the page, perpendicular to the two postscripts.
 4. Moved address here from middle of page, written vertically.
 5. Postmark. A Bishop mark showing receipt of the letter at the post office on 12 May.
 6. Mark from seal (now lost).

Normalised Text




My Dear Miss Hamilton
      I have only a moment to tell you
their Majesties are well in health, & bear
their Affliction in a most edifying manner.
      I'll send an answer to Mrs: Delany
when I return -- I can settle nothing now
but I hope to see her soon --      Yours sincerely
                                                         Philadelphia Dartrey
Windsor
Sunday 11th. May 1783


pray give my kind Love to dear
Mrs: Carter, & tell her I hope to see her soon after
my return. I shall dress in Town for Court on Thursday,
      & I wish you & She would call on Me --

▼

I saw the sweet Princess Sophia yesterday, she is
quite well, & looks charmingly.

To
      Miss Hamilton
           Clarges Street
                near Piccadilly
                             London

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 1. Prince Octavius, the thirteenth child of King George and Queen Charlotte, died on 3 May 1783, aged 4.
 2. A large manuscript figure 2 in brown ink, denoting postage due. appears to the right of the address, 3 lines deep.
 3. The address appears in the middle of the page, perpendicular to the two postscripts.
 4. Moved address here from middle of page, written vertically.
 5. Postmark. A Bishop mark showing receipt of the letter at the post office on 12 May.
 6. Mark from seal (now lost).

Metadata

Library References

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

Archive: Mary Hamilton Papers

Item title: Letter from Lady Dartrey (later Lady Cremorne) to Mary Hamilton

Shelfmark: HAM/1/11/21

Correspondence Details

Sender: Philadelphia Hannah, Baroness Cremorne Dawson (née Freame)

Place sent: Windsor

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: London

Date sent: 11 May 1783

Letter Description

Summary: Letter from Lady Dartrey to Mary Hamilton. She notes that she has only a moment to inform Hamilton that the King and Queen are well and asks her to give her love to Elizabeth Carter. She will be in town for Court on Thursday and asks if Hamilton and Carter would call on her.
    Dartrey ends her letter noting that she saw Hamilton's 'sweet' Princess Sophia yesterday and that she looked charming.
    Dated at Windsor.
    Original reference No. 20.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 120 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: Christine Wallis, editorial team (completed March 2020)

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 February 2022

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