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HAM/1/14/93

Letter from Martha Carolina Goldsworthy to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text


68

                                                         Queens House ye 23d
                                                         May
                                                         1783

      The Letter which you wrote to Kew I
did not receive till I returned to London
last Wedy you will my dr Miʃs
Hamilton easily imagine my Mind was
too much agitated upon the my
coming to this House from whence I
had carried that Bleʃsed Angel[1]
five Weeks before in the fullest Bloom
of Health, to be able to fulfill yr̅
Comiʃsion, but if you will let me
know where Miʃs Forbes lives, I will
seize the first oportunity I can, &
let her have the Money --
This I intended to have wrote yesterdy
since wc̅h I heard from Lady Charlotte


23d May 1783
Miʃs Goldsworthy


the melancholy account you had red
& that you were gone into Northam=
ptonshire, believe me sincere, when I
aʃsure you I felt it exceedingly
for I know how true a Friend Lady
Wake was to you, & what a dreadful
Loʃs she will be, I am really anxious
to know how you are, & will still
hope that tho' your alarm has been
great, that you may have the
happineʃs of being a witneʃs of her
Recovery, believe these wishes flow
from  ---  real feeling & that I
am
                             Affly Yr
                                 MCGoldsworthy


[2]


[3]
Miʃs Hamilton[4]
      at Sir William Wake's R --- 
          Courteen Hall
              Northampton


[5]

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Notes


 1. Prince Octavius died on 3 May 1783.
 2. This side of the sheet is blank.
 3. Remains of a Bishop mark in black ink.
 4. Charge mark: large number 3 written cross the address in black ink, denoting postage due.
 5. Seal, in red wax.

Normalised Text



                                                         Queens House the 23d
                                                         May
                                                        

      The Letter which you wrote to Kew I
did not receive till I returned to London
last Wednesday you will my dear Miss
Hamilton easily imagine my Mind was
too much agitated upon my
coming to this House from whence I
had carried that Blessed Angel
five Weeks before in the fullest Bloom
of Health, to be able to fulfill your
Commission, but if you will let me
know where Miss Forbes lives, I will
seize the first opportunity I can, &
let her have the Money --
This I intended to have written yesterday
since which I heard from Lady Charlotte




the melancholy account you had received
& that you were gone into Northamptonshire
, believe me sincere, when I
assure you I felt it exceedingly
for I know how true a Friend Lady
Wake was to you, & what a dreadful
Loss she will be, I am really anxious
to know how you are, & will still
hope that though your alarm has been
great, that you may have the
happiness of being a witness of her
Recovery, believe these wishes flow
from real feeling & that I
am
                             Affectionately Yours
                                 Martha Carolina Goldsworthy






Miss Hamilton
      at Sir William Wake's R --- 
          Courteen Hall
              Northampton


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 1. Prince Octavius died on 3 May 1783.
 2. This side of the sheet is blank.
 3. Remains of a Bishop mark in black ink.
 4. Charge mark: large number 3 written cross the address in black ink, denoting postage due.
 5. Seal, in red wax.

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/1/14/93

Correspondence Details

Sender: Martha Carolina Goldsworthy

Place sent: London

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: Northamptonshire

Date sent: 23 May 1783

Letter Description

Summary: Letter from Martha Carolina Goldsworthy to Mary Hamilton. She writes of the ‘melancholy’ account Hamilton had given her of Hamilton’s friend Lady Wake.
    Original reference No. 68.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 209 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 1 October 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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