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HAM/1/14/1

Note from Martha Carolina Goldsworthy to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text


                                                         2.


Miʃs Goldsworthy presents her Compliments
to Miʃs Hamilton, Lady Charlotte
Finch is afraid she forgot to tell
her that in all probability the
Princess's will walk to morrow therefore
she advises her to bring her Hat,
& for her own sake any work
she may like to bring. Miʃs G cannot
send this Note without adding
how happy she is in thinking that
Miʃs Hamilton will be at the
Queens House to morrow, & to
request that if there is any thing




She can be the least useful to her
that she will command her;


Queens House
Sunday Evg


april 20th. 1777

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Normalised Text


                                                        


Miss Goldsworthy presents her Compliments
to Miss Hamilton, Lady Charlotte
Finch is afraid she forgot to tell
her that in all probability the
Princess's will walk to morrow therefore
she advises her to bring her Hat,
& for her own sake any work
she may like to bring. Miss Goldsworthy cannot
send this Note without adding
how happy she is in thinking that
Miss Hamilton will be at the
Queens House to morrow, & to
request that if there is any thing




She can be the least useful to her
that she will command her;


Queens House
Sunday Evening


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Metadata

Library References

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

Archive: Mary Hamilton Papers

Item title: Note from Martha Carolina Goldsworthy to Mary Hamilton

Shelfmark: HAM/1/14/1

Correspondence Details

Sender: Martha Carolina Goldsworthy

Place sent: London

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: unknown

Date sent: 20 April 1777

Letter Description

Summary: Note from Martha Carolina Goldsworthy to Mary Hamilton. She presents her compliments to Hamilton and notes that Lady Finch advises that she bring her hat the following day to the Queen's house as it is likely the princesses will go for a walk.
    Dated at Queen's House.
    Original reference No. 2.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 99 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: Tino Oudesluijs, editorial team (completed 27 November 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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