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HAM/1/12/57

Note from Charlotte Finch to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text


Dear Miʃs Hamilton
      As I have appointed Mr Planta here this Morng.
& dont know at what hour he may come I desire you
will take the Airing with the Princeʃs Sophie & I shall
probably be at the Queen's Houʃe by yr return
                             Ever most Sincerely Yrs.
                                                         C.Finch
Tuesday Morng.[1]


Miʃs Hamilton
      QHouʃe[2]

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Notes


 1. This dateline appears to the left of the signature.
 2. This address appears in the bottom right-hand corner of p.2.

Normalised Text


Dear Miss Hamilton
      As I have appointed Mr Planta here this Morning
& don't know at what hour he may come I desire you
will take the Airing with the Princess Sophie & I shall
probably be at the Queen's House by your return
                             Ever most Sincerely Yours
                                                         Charlotte Finch
Tuesday Morning


Miss Hamilton
      Queen's House

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 1. This dateline appears to the left of the signature.
 2. This address appears in the bottom right-hand corner of p.2.

Metadata

Library References

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

Archive: Mary Hamilton Papers

Item title: Note from Charlotte Finch to Mary Hamilton

Shelfmark: HAM/1/12/57

Correspondence Details

Sender: Lady Charlotte Finch (née Fermor)

Place sent: unknown

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: London

Date sent: not after 1782
notAfter 1782 (precision: high)

Letter Description

Summary: Note from Charlotte Finch to Mary Hamilton. She asks Hamilton to ‘take the airing with the Princess Sophia’ whilst she waits for Mr Planta who she has just appointed.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 56 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 13 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

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