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HAM/1/14/52

Letter from Martha Carolina Goldsworthy to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text


48

Indeed my dr you need not chide, for
when I saw you, I had not even spoke
to the Queen, & as she said nothing abt
 --- ling to you, I thought you might
remain quiet, I had intended coming
over this Evg, but a fainting Fit
has alarmed me for fear it might
return in the Queens Room, & I
had begged Miʃs Planta would
desire you to supply my place, but
indeed I feel yr friendly offer
my Breath is very much staid
by the Bleeding & I have no doubt
but that I shall be very well
to morrow God Bleʃs you my
                             dr Afly yr
                             MCG
      Novbr. 1781

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Indeed my dear you need not chide, for
when I saw you, I had not even spoken
to the Queen, & as she said nothing about
 --- ling to you, I thought you might
remain quiet, I had intended coming
over this Evening, but a fainting Fit
has alarmed me for fear it might
return in the Queens Room, & I
had begged Miss Planta would
desire you to supply my place, but
indeed I feel your friendly offer
my Breath is very much stayed
by the Bleeding & I have no doubt
but that I shall be very well
to morrow God Bless you my
                             dear Affectionately yours
                             Martha Carolina Goldsworthy
     

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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/1/14/52

Correspondence Details

Sender: Martha Carolina Goldsworthy

Place sent: unknown

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: unknown

Date sent: November 1781

Letter Description

Summary: Letter from Martha Carolina Goldsworthy to Mary Hamilton. She writes with general news of the court. She had intended to come over this evening, but a fainting fit has prevented her.
    Original reference No. 48.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 111 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: Christine Wallis, editorial team (completed 29 September 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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