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HAM/1/14/45

Letter from Martha Carolina Goldsworthy to Mary Hamilton

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                                                         Miʃs G. July 17: 1780


My dear

It is allmost presumptious
to write when I inclose so
valuable a Letter as one from
Her Majesty must be, but
as I have not had time
to thank you for your kind
anxiety I must do so now,
and aʃsure you likewise
upon my Word, that I
am quite well, I never
wish to create my friend
any uneasineʃs, therefore


wished to conceal that I was
not quite well, I can not
now tell you what really
was the matter with me;
but in short I was very
uncomfortable, & very low
the latter is rather an
extraordinary thing to happen
to me, but that is over &
I am now equal to two
Hours walking upon the
Terrace, which is more uncom-
-fortable than Ever, & in short
the being from eight o'Clock
in the Morg. till Eleven at
Night on Duty, I am


happy to hear that Bathing
agrees with you, as I do
not doubt but that it
will be of infinite Service
to you -- Adieu my Drs
I have stole this moment
& can only add that I
      am most
                             Affly Yr
                             MCGoldsworthy

Queens Lodge
      Windsor Monday 17th July 1780
                                                         34[1]

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My dear

It is almost presumptious
to write when I enclose so
valuable a Letter as one from
Her Majesty must be, but
as I have not had time
to thank you for your kind
anxiety I must do so now,
and assure you likewise
upon my Word, that I
am quite well, I never
wish to create my friend
any uneasiness, therefore


wished to conceal that I was
not quite well, I can not
now tell you what really
was the matter with me;
but in short I was very
uncomfortable, & very low
the latter is rather an
extraordinary thing to happen
to me, but that is over &
I am now equal to two
Hours walking upon the
Terrace, which is more uncomfortable
 than Ever, & in short
the being from eight o'Clock
in the Morning till Eleven at
Night on Duty, I am


happy to hear that Bathing
agrees with you, as I do
not doubt but that it
will be of infinite Service
to you -- Adieu my Dearest
I have stolen this moment
& can only add that I
      am most
                             Affectionately Yours
                             Martha Carolina Goldsworthy

Queens Lodge
      Windsor Monday 17th
                                                        

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Metadata

Library References

Repository: John Rylands Research Institute and Library, University of Manchester

Archive: Mary Hamilton Papers

Item title: Letter from Martha Carolina Goldsworthy to Mary Hamilton

Shelfmark: HAM/1/14/45

Correspondence Details

Sender: Martha Carolina Goldsworthy

Place sent: Windsor

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: Eastbourne

Date sent: 17 July 1780

Letter Description

Summary: Letter from Martha Carolina Goldsworthy to Mary Hamilton. She is happy to hear that sea-bathing agrees with Hamilton and she is sure that it will be of benefit to her. She also writes of her own health noting that it is improving and that she is ‘now equal to Two Hours walking upon the Terrace.’
    Dated at the Queen's Lodge.
    Original reference No. 34.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 196 words

Transliteration Information

Editorial declaration: 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).

All quotation marks are retained in the text and are represented by appropriate Unicode characters. Words split across two lines may have a hyphen on the first, the second or both fragments (reco-|ver, imperfect|-ly, satisfacti-|-on); or a double hyphen (pur=|port, dan|=ger, qua=|=litys); or none (respect|ing). Any point in abbreviations with superscripted letter(s) is placed last, regardless of relative left-right orientation in the original. Thus, Mrs. or Mrs may occur, but M.rs or Mr.s do not.

Acknowledgements: Transcription and XML version created as part of project 'Unlocking the Mary Hamilton Papers', funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council under grant AH/S007121/1.

Transliterator: Cassandra Ulph, editorial team (completed 10 December 2020)

Cataloguer: Lisa Crawley, Archivist, The John Rylands Library

Cataloguer: John Hodgson, Head of Special Collections, John Rylands Research Institute and Library

Copyright: Transcriptions, notes and TEI/XML © the editors

Revision date: 2 November 2021

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