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HAM/1/12/83

Note from Harriet Finch to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text


My dear Miʃs Hamilton, I have just heard from my Mother
She Says she mends in respect to her Cough Appetite &
Sleep -- But that she is rather deafer than she was when
she left London -- she means however to have patience
& Sr. N: Thomas wishes her to do so only & try ye
Country Air  - longer to give it a fair Chance.
      The Above my dr Miʃs Ham: is what I trouble you
with -- that You may hear how she is & likewise that you
may be so good to repeat it at ye Queen's House -- I wd. not
say but to you -- what however does give me some further
Comfort but wd- do not good to repeat as it may
seem more than it really is -- that by ye general
Tenor of her Letter & manners of writing -- I shd-
think she was in rather better Spirits -- Which makes
me think she must be, thank God, vastly better; that
I can think so, when at ye same time, she says
Expreʃsly that her Ears & head are really worse --
& more inconvenient to her, -- & unfit her now for
Society -- As I know she wd- be anxious to return to
her Attendance I shd be wretch'd any thing from
Harleyford cd. imply her  ------------ being able to do so sooner than she can --
Adieu I have writ nonsense but ever always (tho' in great haste)
                                                         yrs affy H F


H. Finch[1]

Miʃs Hamilton St James's[2]

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Notes


 1. This annotation appears upside down in the centre of p.2.
 2. The address appears at the bottom of p.2.

Normalised Text


My dear Miss Hamilton, I have just heard from my Mother
She Says she mends in respect to her Cough Appetite &
Sleep -- But that she is rather deafer than she was when
she left London -- she means however to have patience
& Sir Noah Thomas wishes her to do so only & try the
Country Air longer to give it a fair Chance.
      The Above my dear Miss Hamilton is what I trouble you
with -- that You may hear how she is & likewise that you
may be so good to repeat it at the Queen's House -- I would not
say but to you -- what however does give me some further
Comfort but would do no good to repeat as it may
seem more than it really is -- that by the general
Tenor of her Letter & manners of writing -- I should
think she was in rather better Spirits -- Which makes
me think she must be, thank God, vastly better; that
I can think so, when at the same time, she says
Expressly that her Ears & head are really worse --
& more inconvenient to her, -- & unfit her now for
Society -- As I know she would be anxious to return to
her Attendance I should be wretched any thing from
Harleyford could imply her being able to do so sooner than she can --
Adieu I have written nonsense but ever always (though in great haste)
                                                         yours affectionately Harriet Finch




Miss Hamilton St James's

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 1. This annotation appears upside down in the centre of p.2.
 2. The address appears at the bottom of p.2.

Metadata

Library References

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

Archive: Mary Hamilton Papers

Item title: Note from Harriet Finch to Mary Hamilton

Shelfmark: HAM/1/12/83

Correspondence Details

Sender: Harriet Finch

Place sent: Kew

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: London

Date sent: between June 1777 and November 1782
notBefore June 1777 (precision: high)
notAfter November 1782 (precision: high)

Letter Description

Summary: Note from Harriet Finch to Mary Hamilton, concerning her mother's [Lady Charlotte Finch's] illness.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 245 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 27 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: 27 September 2023

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