| Evidence: | 'The Princess received a letter of twenty-eight pages, from the Princess Charlotte, which looked like the writing of a chambermaid, and appeared to me wholly illegible; but she said she could decipher it, and so she did in regard to understanding the general meaning, but I defy her powers or her patience to have made out [italics] literally [end italics], what those twenty-eight pages contained'. |
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| Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
| Date: | 23 Jan 1813 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Princess Caroline Princess of Wales |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Female |
| Date of Birth | 17 May 1768 |
| Socio-economic group: | Royalty / aristocracy |
| Occupation: | Princess of Wales |
| Religion: | Anglican |
| Country of origin: | Germany |
| Country of experience: | England |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
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| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Princess Charlotte |
| Title: | Letter |
| Genre: | Letters |
| Form of Text: | Manuscript: Letter |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | owned |
| Record ID: | 18344 | |
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| Author: | Charlotte Bury | |
| Editor: | A. Francis Steuart | |
| Title: | Diary of a Lady-in-Waiting, The | |
| Place of Publication: | London | |
| Date of Publication: | 1908 | |
| Vol: | I | |
| Page: | 125 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Charlotte Bury, A. Francis Steuart (ed.), Diary of a Lady-in-Waiting, The (London, 1908), I, p. 125, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=18344, accessed: 25 April 2024 | |
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