GEO/ADD/3/82/16(2)
Draft note from Mary Hamilton to George, Prince of Wales
Diplomatic Text
[1]
26 July 1779
I will not go at present, ask
no further explanation
I am your friend & as such
shall adopt every proper method
to keep up to that character --
Your honor is dear to me as my
own, therefore I shall in
whatever I do be guided by that
consideration & that consideration
will lead me to make every
proper sacrifice.
red text is normalised and/or unformatted in other panel)
Notes
1. Hamilton drafted this letter on the final blank sheet of a letter to her from George, Prince of Wales (GEO/ADD/3/82/16(1)), with which it was originally catalogued as GEO/ADD/3/82/16. The image has been split to separate the Prince's letter and Hamilton's draft and so differs from that in the Royal Archive, where the two appear as a single item under the original reference. This letter is a response not to GEO/ADD/3/82/16(1) but to GEO/ADD/3/82/17 of 26 July (which had no blank space); the sheet is lightly scrawled over in ink so as to leave the content readable. The Prince reacts to Hamilton's opening sentence in GEO/ADD/3/82/18.
Normalised Text
26 July 1779
I will not go at present, ask
no further explanation
I am your friend & as such
shall adopt every proper method
to keep up to that character --
Your honour is dear to me as my
own, therefore I shall in
whatever I do be guided by that
consideration & that consideration
will lead me to make every
proper sacrifice.
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: Draft note from Mary Hamilton to George, Prince of Wales
Shelfmark: GEO/ADD/3/82/16(2)
Correspondence Details
Sender: Mary Hamilton
Place sent: unknown
Addressee: George, Prince of Wales (later George IV)
Place received: unknown
Date sent: 26 July 1779
Letter Description
Summary: Draft note from Mary Hamilton to George, Prince of Wales.
This note is written (and then cancelled) on a blank sheet of GEO/ADD/3/82/16(1).
Length: 1 sheet, 63 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 June 2019)
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Revision date: 28 April 2023