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Queens Lower Lodge
Windsor 29th Novbr
1783
My Dear Miʃs Hamilton
I am sorry I can not give you so good
an account of Miʃs G, as you and
I wish her -- but her breast is
still very painful, and I believe
a nother bleeding is to take place --
she has had two blisters already --
and I beleive two bleedings -- but
notwithstanding all this I do not think
her worse than I have often seen her
on former occasions -- and hope a very
few days will make a great alteration
for the better --
I am in the middle of the most
momentous busineʃs, dreʃsing my
hair, and must you know, be
ready to the minute -- therefore
can not say half what I wish --
I cou'd like to have a Cot of my
own to receive You -- as these
Walls are too large -- but the
cruel fates decree otherwise --
but when we come to Town this
grievance will be removed --
till when and at all times I am
most sincerly Yours
L Cheveley
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My Dear Miss Hamilton
I am sorry I can not give you so good
an account of Miss Goldsworthy, as you and
I wish her -- but her breast is
still very painful, and I believe
another bleeding is to take place --
she has had two blisters already --
and I believe two bleedings -- but
notwithstanding all this I do not think
her worse than I have often seen her
on former occasions -- and hope a very
few days will make a great alteration
for the better --
I am in the middle of the most
momentous business, dressing my
hair, and must you know, be
ready to the minute -- therefore
can not say half what I wish --
I could like to have a Cot of my
own to receive You -- as these
Walls are too large -- but the
cruel fates decree otherwise --
but when we come to Town this
grievance will be removed --
till when and at all times I am
most sincerely Yours
Louisa Cheveley
past one o'clock
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Library References
Repository: John Rylands Research Institute and Library, University of Manchester
Archive: Mary Hamilton Papers
Item title: Letter from Louisa Cheveley to Mary Hamilton
Shelfmark: HAM/1/7/2/21
Correspondence Details
Sender: Louisa Laetitia Cheveley (née Nevin)
Place sent: Windsor
Addressee: Mary Hamilton
Place received: Gerrards Cross (certainty: high)
Date sent: 29 November 1783
Letter Description
Summary: Letter from Louisa Cheveley to Mary Hamilton, relating to the health of Miss Goldsworthy [a Royal Governess]. Goldsworthy is suffering from a pain in her breast and has already been bled twice but will be done so again. She has also been treated with 'two blisters'. Cheveley reports that even with this she does not think she looks worse than she has on previous occasions and hopes that her health will improve over the next few days.
Cheveley also notes that her official duties afford her little time for writing. She is presently engaged in 'the most momentous business' of dressing her hair and 'must you know be ready to the minute', so has not the time to write all that she wishes.
Dated at Queen's Lower Lodge, [Windsor].
Length: 1 sheet, 167 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).
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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: Alice Pagliani, MA student, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) (submitted 15 August 2022)
Transliterator: Christine Wallis, editorial team (completed 8 November 2022)
Cataloguer: Lisa Crawley, Archivist, The John Rylands Library
Cataloguer: John Hodgson, Head of Special Collections, John Rylands Research Institute and Library
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Revision date: 2 December 2022