Unlocking the Mary Hamilton papers

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GEO/ADD/3/83/46

Incomplete letter from Mary Hamilton to George, Prince of Wales

Diplomatic Text

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-- I know not if my expreʃsions convey  -  properly
my meaning -- but I think you will perfectly
understand me. well then it has been call'd forth this
morng., you have I know had some painful sensations, & I have
seen the tear of tender maternal affection, (noticed I
believe only by me), I could not help thinking at
the moment what a peculiar misfortune it was to be
plac'd in a sphere where it becomes neceʃsary to
hide & even stifle if poʃsible ye. delicate feelings of the
heart. I[2]


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Normalised Text


-- I know not if my expressions convey properly
my meaning -- but I think you will perfectly
understand me. well then it has been called forth this
morning, you have I know had some painful sensations, & I have
seen the tear of tender maternal affection, (noticed I
believe only by me), I could not help thinking at
the moment what a peculiar misfortune it was to be
placed in a sphere where it becomes necessary to
hide & even stifle if possible the delicate feelings of the
heart. I


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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: Incomplete letter from Mary Hamilton to George, Prince of Wales

Shelfmark: GEO/ADD/3/83/46

Correspondence Details

Sender: Mary Hamilton

Place sent: unknown

Addressee: George, Prince of Wales (later George IV)

Place received: unknown

Date sent: c.15 November 1779
notBefore 15 November 1779 (precision: low)
notAfter 15 November 1779 (precision: low)

Letter Description

Summary: Incomplete letter from Mary Hamilton to George, Prince of Wales, on the maternal affection [of the Queen] and on the Prince's 'painful sensations'.
    Hamilton reflects on the 'peculiar misfortune' of being 'placed in a sphere where it becomes necessary to hide & even stifle if possible the delicate feelings of the heart'.
    [Draft.]
   

Length: 1 sheet, 89 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 August 2019)

Copyright: Transcriptions, notes and TEI/XML © the editors

Revision date: 30 September 2023

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