COLLECTION NAME:
Mary Hamilton Papers
Record
Image Number:
HAM_1_12_42.pdf
Reference Number:
HAM/1/12/42
Link to Catalogue:
Series Title:
Correspondence from Lady Charlotte Finch and Harriet Finch
Parent Work Title:
Letter from Charlotte Finch to Mary Hamilton
Creator:
Finch, Charlotte, Lady, 1725-1813
Creator Role:
Author
Date Created:
1782-07-03
Description:
Letter from Charlotte Finch to Mary Hamilton. She writes that Prince Alfred looks so ‘charming’ today that she cannot resist taking up her pen to brag about it. He bathes every two days out of three. She presented him to Lord North [probably Frederick North, 2nd Earl of Guilford (1732–1792), prime minister] yesterday who visited for a short time and was in the area to ‘endeavour to get Sea men for manning the ships that are in so much want of men’. Finch notes that her post today brought her news of the account of the death of Lord Rockingham which she writes did not surprise her as she has had news on him before in the post. She reports that Lord Fitzwilliam will come into his Estate and his three sisters will get fifteen thousand pounds a piece and that as Lord Fitzwilliam has no children, the estate, the son of one of his sisters may be heir to it all. Finch is afraid that the death of the Bishop of Salisbury has had a profound effect of the situation and circumstance of Mary Humes.
Dated at Deal Castle, [Kent].
Dated at Deal Castle, [Kent].
Language Code:
eng-GB
Language:
English
Subject:
Death
Subject:
Great Britain--Court and courtiers
Subject:
Letters
Category of Material:
Archives
Sub-Category:
Correspondence
Technique Used:
Handwriting
Medium:
Ink
Support:
Paper
Creation Site:
England: Kent: Deal
Time Period Covered:
18th Century CE
People Covered:
North, Frederick, Earl of Guilford, 1766-1827
People Covered:
Hume, John, 1703-1782
People Covered:
Rockingham, Charles Watson-Wentworth, Marquis of, 1730-1782
People Covered:
Alfred, Prince, son of George III, King of Great Britain, 1780-1782
Item Height:
235 mm
Item Width:
185 mm
Current Repository:
The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
Rights Holder - Image:
The University of Manchester Library
Rights Holder - Work:
Copyright restrictions may apply
Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd):
2019-05-01
Image Creation Technique:
Digital capture by The University of Manchester Library
Access Rights:
Date Image Added (yyyy-mm):
2019-06
Metadata Language:
eng-GB
Collection Code:
Mary Hamilton Papers