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Kew. Thursday 21st
August 1782
My Drst. friend
The melancholy scene closed by the
Death of the Dr. Child Yesterday at
5 o'Clock -- the K & Q have been
deeply afflicted -- they are now thank
God more composed & I trust they
will not suffer in their health.
they quitted Windsor this Morng.
at ten o'Clock & intend staying here
till Friday Sen̄ight. I have in
Charge the five Pʃs's. & Prince
Octavious -- Ldy. C F. & Miʃs G- &c
remain at W. -- Mlle. Moula is
here to attend ye. little ones.
Prince Alfred will be inter'd privately
in Westminster Abbey next Tuesday.
I have not yet recover'd my
self sufficiently to be able to add
more at present than that I am Ever Yours
M H
My letters will be forwarded from W——
daily
I wrote a few lines to Yo. ye. 19th.
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Kew. Thursday 21st
August 1782
My Dearest friend
The melancholy scene closed by the
Death of the Dear Child Yesterday at
5 o'Clock -- the King & Queen have been
deeply afflicted -- they are now thank
God more composed & I trust they
will not suffer in their health.
they quitted Windsor this Morning
at ten o'Clock & intend staying here
till Friday Sennight. I have in
Charge the five Princesses & Prince
Octavius -- Lady Charlotte Finch & Miss G- &c
remain at Windsor -- Mademoiselle Moula is
here to attend the little ones.
Prince Alfred will be interred privately
in Westminster Abbey next Tuesday.
I have not yet recovered my
self sufficiently to be able to add
more at present than that I am Ever Yours
Mary Hamilton
My letters will be forwarded from Windsor
daily
I wrote a few lines to you the 19th.
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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 Mary Hamilton to Charlotte Margaret Gunning
Shelfmark: HAM/1/15/2/23(2)
Correspondence Details
Sender: Mary Hamilton
Place sent: Kew
Addressee: Charlotte Margaret Digby (née Gunning)
Place received: unknown
Date sent: 21 August 1782
Letter Description
Summary: In this letter, dated 21 August 1782, Hamilton informs Gunning of the death of Prince Alfred. She details the funeral arrangements for the Prince and writes on the King and Queen.
Dated at Kew.
Original reference No. 20.
Length: 1 sheet, 144 words
Transliteration Information
Editorial declaration: First edited in the project 'Image to Text' (David Denison & Nuria Yáñez-Bouza, 2013-2019), now incorporated 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: XML version: Research Assistant funding in 2014/15 and 2015/16 provided by the Department of Linguistics and English Language, University of Manchester.
Research assistant: Donald Alasdair Morrison, undergraduate student, University of Manchester
Transliterator: Rachael Lunt, undergraduate student, University of Manchester (submitted November 2014)
Cataloguer: Lisa Crawley, Archivist, The John Rylands Library
Cataloguer: John Hodgson, Head of Special Collections, John Rylands Research Institute and Library
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Revision date: 28 April 2023