Unlocking the Mary Hamilton papers

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HAM/1/14/3

Note from Martha Carolina Goldsworthy to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text


3.

dont vex yourself my Dst
about what happened to
Night, I daresay it will
not be taken notice of
but if any thing should
ever be said before me,
I will stand forth
God Bleʃs you go to
sleep like a good Child
& believe me Affly
                             Yours
                             MCG --
Satry. 6 June
      1778[1]
I have sent
for the Newspaper[2] I have not
                             seen it --

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Notes


 1. The dateline and annotation appear to the left of the signature.
 2. Newspapers for 6 June 1788 carried reports of the King's birthday celebrations at Court, including the dress of those present.

Normalised Text



don't vex yourself my Dearest
about what happened to
Night, I daresay it will
not be taken notice of
but if any thing should
ever be said before me,
I will stand forth
God Bless you go to
sleep like a good Child
& believe me Affectionately
                             Yours
                             Martha Carolina Goldsworthy --
Saturday 6 June

I have sent
for the Newspaper I have not
                             seen it --

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 1. The dateline and annotation appear to the left of the signature.
 2. Newspapers for 6 June 1788 carried reports of the King's birthday celebrations at Court, including the dress of those present.

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/1/14/3

Correspondence Details

Sender: Martha Carolina Goldsworthy

Place sent: unknown

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: unknown

Date sent: 6 June 1778

Letter Description

Summary: Note from Martha Carolina Goldsworthy to Mary Hamilton. She writes about an incident that happened that night and advises Hamilton to ‘go to sleep like a good child’.
    Original reference No. 3.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 65 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 28 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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