Diplomatic Text
My Dear Miʃs Hamilton
We are all much obliged by your kind Enquiry,
but it is a house full of Invalids & poor Mr Feilding I fear
very seriously so; he has had but an indifferent Night as I
hear. My Cold is very troublesome & I am very unwell
with it, & our little Sophie I found in a high Fever, She
has had a tollerable Night & I hope is better to day but I
have not yet Seen her. All these Circumstances make me
wish to postpone a little the pleasure of Seeing you here,
added to the taking leave of Lady Juliana Penn who has
promis'd to reserve a part of this Evening to come to me
as She sets out for Paris tomorrow Morning. I hope
you are well & remain ever my dear Miʃs Hamilton
Most Sincerely Yrs.
CFinch
Sunday Morng.
29th. Decbr 1782
Hamilton[1]
red text is normalised and/or unformatted in other panel)
Notes
1. The ‘Miss’ of ‘Miss Hamilton’ appears along the left margin perpendicular to the text, while ‘Hamilton’ appears at the bottom of the page parallel to the main text of the letter. This is presumably because the letter was addressed after folding.
Normalised Text
My Dear Miss Hamilton
We are all much obliged by your kind Enquiry,
but it is a house full of Invalids & poor Mr Feilding I fear
very seriously so; he has had but an indifferent Night as I
hear. My Cold is very troublesome & I am very unwell
with it, & our little Sophie I found in a high Fever, She
has had a tolerable Night & I hope is better to day but I
have not yet Seen her. All these Circumstances make me
wish to postpone a little the pleasure of Seeing you here,
added to the taking leave of Lady Juliana Penn who has
promised to reserve a part of this Evening to come to me
as She sets out for Paris tomorrow Morning. I hope
you are well & remain ever my dear Miss Hamilton
Most Sincerely Yours
Charlotte Finch
Sunday Morning
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 Charlotte Finch to Mary Hamilton
Shelfmark: HAM/1/12/50
Correspondence Details
Sender: Lady Charlotte Finch (née Fermor)
Place sent: unknown
Addressee: Mary Hamilton
Place received: unknown
Date sent: 29 December 1782
Letter Description
Summary: Letter from Charlotte Finch to Mary Hamilton. She notes that she is writing from a house ‘full of invalids, & poor Mr Feilding I fear very seriously so’. Finch is ill with a cold, ‘our little Sophie’ has a fever and has spent a tolerable night. With all this, Finch asks to postpone seeing Hamilton that night.
Length: 1 sheet, 150 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 11 May 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: 2 November 2021