| Collection | Lady Charlotte Finch |
| Reference | GEO/ADD/15/8172 |
| Record Type | Correspondence |
| Title | Letter from Princess Mary to Lady Charlotte Finch |
| Date | 13 November 1797 |
| Writer | Mary, Princess (1776-1857) |
| Addressee | Finch, Charlotte, Lady |
| Description | Thanks her for her letter and apologies for not writing sooner: 'I am so little used to going backwards & forwards with the King & Queen from Windsor to London & from London to Windsor that my head has been near turned with the hurry...So many people are coming all morning to My Sisters & so much talking & noise that it was quite out of my power to ?settel myself to do any thing'; on Matilda's health; goes to play on Wednesday evening: 'it went off very well we did not come home till very late though as God Save the King was sung over & over again six times in all'; on her niece Princess Charlotte and Princess Caroline: 'I never saw a Child more fond of its Mother then Charlotte is & more tender of her Child than the Princess is of her Daughter - talked with the Child of Papa as if nothing had happened'; impending visit of Lady Bath
Signed. Written 'K' in top left hand corner
With a note on contents at top of page in a different hand |
| Language | English |
| Extent | 1 document |
| Physical Description | Loose manuscript paper; mounted |
| Custodial History | Purchased 1975 |
| Document Image | 
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| Level | Item |
| Credit | published with the kind permission of Olga Mary Bland; Mrs Philippa C J Snowdon, Mr F C G Hohler, Mr R H A Hohler; Ms D M C FitzGeorge-Balfour; and Mr R. FitzGeorge-Balfour |