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HAM/1/14/103

Letters from Martha Carolina Goldsworthy and Marie Elizabeth de la Fite to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text


78

                             Queens Lower Lodge ye 24h June
                                                         1785


      My Newspaper this Morning anounced that
you had my Dear Friend changed your
Name, may it be attended by as much
happineʃs as Mortals are allowed to enjoy
is my Sincere wish, I am desired by all
your Friends in this House to add their
Sincere Congratulations. I beg through
you to make them acceptable to Mr
Dickenson, whom I flatter myself some
Time or other to have the pleasure of being
known to -- Adieu my Dear, my Dear
                             Mrs Dickenson
                             believe me
                                Ever Yr-
                                                         Affly
                                                         MCGoldsworthy
I inclose this
to Miʃs Clarke thinks who
may not be in Town[1]     T.S.V.P.


J'ai sollicité la permiʃion d'ajouter quelques
lignes à la Lettre de Miʃs Goldsworthy
afin de vous exprimer moi même combien
je fais de voeux, ma chère Madame
pour que rien ne manque á votre félicité
dans le nouvel état où vous venez
d'entrer. Mes voeux sont aussi sincères
que l'estime que vous avez inspirée
à                                                    Votre très devouée
                                                         M. E. de la Fite



[2]


[3]

Mrs Dickenson --


Miʃs Goldsworthy
& Madam le fite
24 June 1785
Congratulations abt
Marriage[4]

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Notes


 1. This postscript appears to the left of the signature.
 2. This side of the sheet is blank.
 3. Seal in red wax.
 4. These notes are written upside down at the bottom left of the page.

Normalised Text



                             Queens Lower Lodge the 24h June
                                                         1785


      My Newspaper this Morning announced that
you had my Dear Friend changed your
Name, may it be attended by as much
happiness as Mortals are allowed to enjoy
is my Sincere wish, I am desired by all
your Friends in this House to add their
Sincere Congratulations. I beg through
you to make them acceptable to Mr
Dickenson, whom I flatter myself some
Time or other to have the pleasure of being
known to -- Adieu my Dear, my Dear
                             Mrs Dickenson
                             believe me
                                Ever Yours
                                                         Affectionately
                                                         Martha Carolina Goldsworthy
I enclose this
to Miss Clarke thinks who
may not be in Town    


J'ai sollicité la permision d'ajouter quelques
lignes à la Lettre de Miss Goldsworthy
afin de vous exprimer moi même combien
je fais de voeux, ma chère Madame
pour que rien ne manque á votre félicité
dans le nouvel état où vous venez
d'entrer. Mes voeux sont aussi sincères
que l'estime que vous avez inspirée
à                 Votre très devouée
                                                         Marie Elizabeth de la Fite








Mrs Dickenson --



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 1. This postscript appears to the left of the signature.
 2. This side of the sheet is blank.
 3. Seal in red wax.
 4. These notes are written upside down at the bottom left of the page.

Metadata

Library References

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

Archive: Mary Hamilton Papers

Item title: Letters from Martha Carolina Goldsworthy and Marie Elizabeth de la Fite to Mary Hamilton

Shelfmark: HAM/1/14/103

Correspondence Details

Sender: Martha Carolina Goldsworthy and Marie Elizabeth de la Fite (née Boué)

Place sent: Windsor

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: unknown

Date sent: 24 June 1785

Letter Description

Summary: Letters from Martha Carolina Goldsworthy to Mary Hamilton, relating to Hamilton’s marriage, which Goldsworthy read about in the newspaper that morning.
    The sheet contains a second note written in French by ‘M.E. de la Fite’.
    Original reference No. 78.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 174 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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