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HAM/1/12/1

Note from Charlotte Finch (née Fermor) to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text


      Lady Charlotte Finch presents her Compliments
to Miʃs Hamilton & if she is not engaged will
do herself the pleasure of waiting on her between
11 & 12 tomorrow Morning[1]


St James's. Thursday Evening April 17th. 1777

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Notes


 1. According to Finch's daughter, Finch is required by the Queen to settle Hamilton's appointment at Court (see HAM/1/7/5/17).

Normalised Text


      Lady Charlotte Finch presents her Compliments
to Miss Hamilton & if she is not engaged will
do herself the pleasure of waiting on her between
11 & 12 tomorrow Morning


St James's. Thursday Evening April 17th. 1777

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 1. According to Finch's daughter, Finch is required by the Queen to settle Hamilton's appointment at Court (see HAM/1/7/5/17).

Metadata

Library References

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

Archive: Mary Hamilton Papers

Item title: Note from Charlotte Finch (née Fermor) to Mary Hamilton

Shelfmark: HAM/1/12/1

Correspondence Details

Sender: Lady Charlotte Finch (née Fermor)

Place sent: London

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: London (certainty: high)

Date sent: 17 April 1777

Letter Description

Summary: Note from Charlotte Finch to Mary Hamilton. She presents her compliments to Hamilton and announces that she will call on her the following morning if Hamilton is not otherwise engaged.
    Dated at St James's [London].
   

Length: 1 sheet, 37 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: Tino Oudesluijs, editorial team (completed April 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: 30 July 2025

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