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This set of letters transliterated and encoded as TEI/XML files by a second-year undergraduate of the University of Manchester on a Student Experience Internship, June-July 2019. Project supervised by David Denison and Nuria Yáñez-Bouza. Files additionally offered for adaptation at William & Mary for the Georgian Papers Programme.<\/p>" }, { "label": "Date of Creation", "value": "not after 19 November 1779" }, { "label": "Origin Place", "value": "London" }, { "label": "Next", "value": "/view/EX-RA-GEO-ADD-00003-00082-00064" }, { "label": "Collation", "value": "Loose manuscript paper." }, { "label": "Prev", "value": "/view/EX-RA-GEO-ADD-00003-00082-00063" }, { "label": "Script", "value": "
Letter from Mary Hamilton to George, Prince of Wales, on the wish of 'the little Gentleman' to have a lock of her hair.<\/p>
Hamilton writes that this gentleman has been 'shot with one of Cupid's most powerful darts', and had offered her 100 guineas for her hair. She explains that she would give him the hair on the condition that he would have his hair, of which he is excessively proud, cut off, '& wear a little Bob wig'.<\/p>
[Draft.]<\/p>" }, { "label": "Collection", "value": "GEO/ADD/3 Additional papers of George IV, as Prince, Regent, and King" }, { "label": "Recipient(s)", "value": "George, Prince of Wales (later George IV)" }, { "label": "Author(s)", "value": "Hamilton, Mary" } ], "@type": "sc:Manifest", "attribution": "Provided by The University of Manchester.
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