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

Letter from Mary Hamilton to George, Prince of Wales (GEO/ADD/3/83/32)

Letter from Mary Hamilton to George, Prince of Wales, on rumours about his affections for Mrs [Mary] Robinson.

Hamilton cautions the Prince that 'the person who is so infamous as to undertake the employ you have given them ... cannot be a person of either honor or principle'. She writes that 'the present subject is one unfit for your sister'.

Written Friday morning.

[Copy.]

Information about this document

Physical Location: Windsor Castle
Collection: GEO/ADD/3 Additional papers of George IV, as Prince, Regent, and King
Classmark: GEO/ADD/3/83/32
Title: Letter from Mary Hamilton to George, Prince of Wales
Language(s): English
Author(s): Hamilton, Mary
Origin Place: unknown
Date of Creation: 10 December 1779
Date of Sending: 10 December 1779
Recipient(s): George, Prince of Wales (later George IV)
Destination: unknown
Extent: 1 sheet; 91 words
Collation: Loose manuscript paper.
Script:
Hand of writer of the main text, Mary Hamilton.
Hand of unknown writer of the numbers at the top of p.1.
Project Information:
This set of letters transliterated and encoded as TEI/XML files by post-doctoral researchers in the 'Unlocking the Mary Hamilton Papers' project. Work supervised by David Denison and Nuria Yáñez-Bouza. Files additionally offered for adaptation at William & Mary for the Georgian Papers Programme.
Last Revised: 2021-12-10

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).

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Information about this document

Physical Location: Windsor Castle
Collection: GEO/ADD/3 Additional papers of George IV, as Prince, Regent, and King
Classmark: GEO/ADD/3/83/32
Title: Letter from Mary Hamilton to George, Prince of Wales
Language(s): English
Author(s): Hamilton, Mary
Origin Place: unknown
Date of Creation: 10 December 1779
Date of Sending: 10 December 1779
Recipient(s): George, Prince of Wales (later George IV)
Destination: unknown
Extent: 1 sheet; 91 words
Collation: Loose manuscript paper.
Script:
Hand of writer of the main text, Mary Hamilton.
Hand of unknown writer of the numbers at the top of p.1.
Project Information:
This set of letters transliterated and encoded as TEI/XML files by post-doctoral researchers in the 'Unlocking the Mary Hamilton Papers' project. Work supervised by David Denison and Nuria Yáñez-Bouza. Files additionally offered for adaptation at William & Mary for the Georgian Papers Programme.
Last Revised: 2021-12-10