Diplomatic Text
6
June 6th
I beseech of you my dearest Friend
to indulge me with an instant's conversation
this Afternoon, as I have but a single
question to ask of you, if you are so good,
will you go into the Butterfly House, or
at least into that little Room which you
told me the Queen had given you for the
purpose of keeping yr. Butterflies, a
few minutes before Seven, or exactly as
ye Clock strikes Seven, and when
I come into the Gardens, I will
make some excuse for staying behind,
and I will come immediately to you.
I will give you my honor I will not
detainkeep you not a minute, nor shall any
body find you out, if you will exactly
follow my desires. Adieu
dearest dearest dearest
Friend.
P.S.[1]
Excuse my Scribble for I have
not been above a minute writing this.
Adieu a second time
Sunday --
6th. May 1779 --
June[2]
red text is normalised and/or unformatted in other panel)
Normalised Text
I beseech of you my dearest Friend
to indulge me with an instant's conversation
this Afternoon, as I have but a single
question to ask of you, if you are so good,
will you go into the Butterfly House, or
at least into that little Room which you
told me the Queen had given you for the
purpose of keeping your Butterflies, a
few minutes before Seven, or exactly as
the Clock strikes Seven, and when
I come into the Gardens, I will
make some excuse for staying behind,
and I will come immediately to you.
I will give you my honour I will not
detain you a minute, nor shall any
body find you out, if you will exactly
follow my desires. Adieu
dearest dearest dearest
Friend.
P.S.
Excuse my Scribble for I have
not been above a minute writing this.
Adieu a second time
quotations, spellings, uncorrected forms, split words, abbreviations, formatting)
Notes
Metadata
Library References
Repository: Windsor Castle, The Royal Archives
Archive: GEO/ADD/3 Additional papers of George IV, as Prince, Regent, and King
Item title: Letter from George, Prince of Wales, to Mary Hamilton
Shelfmark: GEO/ADD/3/82/6
Correspondence Details
Sender: George, Prince of Wales (later George IV)
Place sent: unknown
Addressee: Mary Hamilton
Place received: unknown
Date sent: 6 June 1779
when 6 June 1779 (precision: high)
Letter Description
Summary: Letter from George, Prince of Wales, to Mary Hamilton on arranging a secret meeting in the Butterfly House.
The Prince refers to 'that little room which you told me the Queen had given you for the purpose of keeping your Butterflies'.
Written Sunday.
Signed.
Length: 1 sheet, 146 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: Transcription and Research Assistant funding in 2018/19 provided by the Student Experience Internship programme of the University of Manchester.
Research assistant: Emma Donington Kiey, undergraduate student, University of Manchester
Transliterator: Emma Donington Kiey (submitted July 2019)
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Revision date: 2 November 2021