Diplomatic Text
Augst. 9th- -- -- I must tell you once more that nothing can be
more improper than ye. part I am acting, & the friendship you
profeʃs, & remember O remember, that I could now bear
you to say we will be friends no longer than suffer yt. tie to
strengthen, by time, & then be left to feel ye. reverse.
As you promise to be guided by me respecting your behaviour
to a certain person[2] -- I beg of you to continue to treat them
with coolneʃs, & ye. common proper civility -- you shld. always
have done, but as it has 'tis a little noxious animal --
not worth notice -- but as it has ye. gift of speech & is a
liar ought to be kept at a distance, Adieu my friend
I shall not break my promise to you unleʃs acting wth-
your consent -- I think there is no likelihood of any other
Sejour than this -- in the present melancholy situation
of affairs
Adieu mon Ami,
red text is normalised and/or unformatted in other panel)
Notes
1. Moved annotation here from the right margin, below the first line.
2. A reference to William Ramus, on whom see GEO/ADD/3/82/26 p.1 n.2.
Normalised Text
August 9th- -- -- I must tell you once more that nothing can be
more improper than the part I am acting, & the friendship you
profess, & remember O remember, that I could now bear
you to say we will be friends no longer than suffer that tie to
strengthen, by time, & then be left to feel the reverse.
As you promise to be guided by me respecting your behaviour
to a certain person -- I beg of you to continue to treat them
with coolness, & the common proper civility -- you should always
have done, 'tis a little noxious animal --
not worth notice -- but as it has the gift of speech & is a
liar ought to be kept at a distance, Adieu my friend
I shall not break my promise to you unless acting with
your consent -- I think there is no likelihood of any other
Sejour than this -- in the present melancholy situation
of affairs
Adieu mon Ami,
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 Mary Hamilton to George, Prince of Wales
Shelfmark: GEO/ADD/3/83/6
Correspondence Details
Sender: Mary Hamilton
Place sent: unknown
Addressee: George, Prince of Wales (later George IV)
Place received: unknown
Date sent: 9 August 1779
Letter Description
Summary: Letter from Mary Hamilton to George, Prince of Wales, on fearing a change in his affection; and advising the Prince how to act towards a 'certain person'.
Hamilton counsels the Prince to treat the 'certain person' with coolness, and refers to this person as 'a little noxious animal – not worth notice – but as it has the gift of speech & is a liar ought to be kept at a distance...'.
[Copy.]
Length: 1 sheet, 165 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: 10 December 2021