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GEO/ADD/3/82/75

Letter from George, Prince of Wales, to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text


75

recd. 7th. Decbr. 1779 Tuesday
Morng. ½ past 9 o'Clock

My ever dearest Miranda,

      My ## plagues me so hard to
steal a moment, yt I immediately
with ye. greatest good will complied
with his request in order to inform
you according to yr. desire yt. I am
in a tolerablye good health, tho' over
head in ears in love, & so much so
yt. I do not know to what lengths
it will carry me, God Bleʃs you
Adieu
      Yr. unfortunate Brother
      Palemon. toujours de même


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My ever dearest Miranda,

      My ## plagues me so hard to
steal a moment, that I immediately
with the greatest good will complied
with his request in order to inform
you according to your desire that I am
in a tolerable good health, though over
head & ears in love, & so much so
that I do not know to what lengths
it will carry me, God Bless you
Adieu
      Your unfortunate Brother
      Palemon. toujours de même


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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: Letter from George, Prince of Wales, to Mary Hamilton

Shelfmark: GEO/ADD/3/82/75

Correspondence Details

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

Place sent: unknown

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: unknown

Date sent: c.7 December 1779
notBefore 6 December 1779 (precision: medium)
notAfter 7 December 1779 (precision: high)

Letter Description

Summary: Letter from George, Prince of Wales, to Mary Hamilton, on his health; and on being 'over head in ears in love' [with Mary Robinson].
    Received Tuesday morning at ½ past 9 o'clock.
    Signed 'Palemon'.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 77 words

Transliteration Information

Editorial declaration: First edited 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: Transcription and XML version created as part of project 'Unlocking the Mary Hamilton Papers', funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council under grant AH/S007121/1.

Transliterator: Cassandra Ulph, editorial team (completed February 2020)

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

Revision date: 2 November 2021

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