COLLECTION NAME:
Mary Hamilton Papers
Image Number:
HAM_1_12_96.pdf
Reference Number:
HAM/1/12/96
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Parent Work Title:
Letter from Charlotte Finch to Miss Goldsworthy
Creator:
Finch, Charlotte, Lady, 1725-1813
Creator Role:
Author
Date Created:
1781-09-05
Description:
Letter from Charlotte Finch to Miss Goldsworthy. Finch writes that she has received no letter from Goldsworthy since the end of June. She writes from Caldas that her son Lord Winchilsea has benefited from his time there and he is feeling so much better that he wishes to accompany Finch home as far as he is allowed as it is still everyone’s opinion that he should spend the Winter in a Southern climate. His idea means that they can only travel by Land and Finch is therefore against a sea voyage and the problems of finding a neutral vessel to sail in also influenced her decision. Their route is to be Lisbon to Madrid, from there to Bayonne and then to Ostend. As they only intend to stop at some principle towns, the journey may take a little more time than it would do by sea and she hopes that by November she will have the happiness to be able to pay her duties to the King and Queen.
Finch continues in the letter on the Queen of Portugal and notes that no Court days are held and hence the Queen ‘is always applied to’ and that she does not return to Lisbon until October. She asks Goldsworthy to direct her letter to her in Ostend as she calculates that by the time that Goldsworthy receives this letter and returns her own then it will meet her there.
Dated at Caldas.
Finch continues in the letter on the Queen of Portugal and notes that no Court days are held and hence the Queen ‘is always applied to’ and that she does not return to Lisbon until October. She asks Goldsworthy to direct her letter to her in Ostend as she calculates that by the time that Goldsworthy receives this letter and returns her own then it will meet her there.
Dated at Caldas.
Language Code:
eng
Language:
English
Subject:
Voyages and travels
Subject:
Letters
Category of Material:
Archives
Sub-Category:
Correspondence
Technique Used:
Handwriting
Medium:
Ink
Support:
Paper
Time Period Covered:
18th Century CE
Places Covered:
Portugal: Lisboa: Lisbon
Places Covered:
Spain: Comunidad de Madrid: Madrid
Places Covered:
France: Nouvelle-Aquitaine: Bayonne
Places Covered:
Belgium: Flanders: West Flanders: Ostend
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
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