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HAM/1/14/101

Letter from Martha Carolina Goldsworthy to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text


                                                         76[1]
      My Dear
I heard from my Brother of
yr- kind enquiries yesterdy
& am much obliged by
them, I did not receive
any Letter from you, &
fear it is lost, as I have
had some forwarded to me
from Malvern & Worcester
since I returned home --
I am I thank God a
great deal better, tho' not
free from Pain or shortneʃs
of Breath, but as the ▼
Queen is so gracious as
to allow me not to make


my appearance of a Morg
before Ten o'Clock, nor to
do any thing that can
fatigue me, I trust, by
by care I shall go on
tolerably well, but so old
a Complaint as mine
I can not expect to get
quite rid of.
      I shall always be
glad to see you, as will
the rest of yr- Friends
here, who I know would
send many kind wishes if


they knew I was writing --
      Adieu
                             Sincerely Yr-
                                                         M C Goldsworthy
Queens Lodge
      Tuesdy Morg
                             12th. Octbr. 1784


Miʃs Hamilton
                             Bullstrode
[2]

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 1. This number is written vertically along the margin at the bottom right of p.1. It has been moved here to avoid disrupting the logical reading order.
 2. Evidence of seal in red wax.

Normalised Text


                                                        
      My Dear
I heard from my Brother of
your kind enquiries yesterday
& am much obliged by
them, I did not receive
any Letter from you, &
fear it is lost, as I have
had some forwarded to me
from Malvern & Worcester
since I returned home --
I am I thank God a
great deal better, though not
free from Pain or shortness
of Breath, but as the ▼
Queen is so gracious as
to allow me not to make


my appearance of a Morning
before Ten o'Clock, nor to
do any thing that can
fatigue me, I trust, by
by care I shall go on
tolerably well, but so old
a Complaint as mine
I can not expect to get
quite rid of.
      I shall always be
glad to see you, as will
the rest of your Friends
here, who I know would
send many kind wishes if


they knew I was writing --
      Adieu
                             Sincerely Yours
                                                         Martha Carolina Goldsworthy
Queens Lodge
      Tuesday Morning
                            


Miss Hamilton
                             Bullstrode

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 1. This number is written vertically along the margin at the bottom right of p.1. It has been moved here to avoid disrupting the logical reading order.
 2. Evidence of 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/1/14/101

Correspondence Details

Sender: Martha Carolina Goldsworthy

Place sent: Windsor

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: Gerrards Cross

Date sent: 12 October 1784

Letter Description

Summary: Letter from Martha Carolina Goldsworthy to Mary Hamilton. Her brother has told her of the enquiries that Hamilton has made about her but she notes that she has not received any letter from her. She had a number forwarded to her a month ago but has received none since then. Goldsworthy moves on to the subject of her health which is a great deal better although she is not yet free from pain. She notes that the Queen is very gracious in not allowing her to make her appearance before 10 o'clock so that she is not too fatigued.
    Dated at the Queen's Lodge.
    Original reference No. 76.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 166 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 16 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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