Diplomatic Text
My Dear Hammy
Will you be so good as to order the Princeʃs's
Dinner not to be ready till three o'Clock
as we are not to leave the Queens House
till two o'Clock & their Majesties do
not return till Saturday the 7. I
have been very good & seen Turton (who
enquired very kindly after you) I am
to take the Back, no Blister yet
thank God. I have heard from Mrs
Hamilton that she was better. I beg
my duty to dear Pʃs Elizt who I hope
is quite well, kiʃs Pʃs Mary, love to
Moumou & Che Che & aʃsure yr self
my Dearest of my truly
Maternal affection
MCGoldsworthy
my Brother left Coxheath this
Morg, I heard from their Majesties
a charming acc̅t of him --
Thursday pt 2 --
5th Novbr. 1788
Queens House
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Normalised Text
My Dear Hammy
Will you be so good as to order the Princess's
Dinner not to be ready till three o'Clock
as we are not to leave the Queens House
till two o'Clock & their Majesties do
not return till Saturday the 7. I
have been very good & seen Turton (who
enquired very kindly after you) I am
to take the Back, no Blister yet
thank God. I have heard from Mrs
Hamilton that she was better. I beg
my duty to dear Princess Elizabeth who I hope
is quite well, kiss Princess Mary, love to
Moumou & Che Che & assure your self
my Dearest of my truly
Maternal affection
Martha Carolina Goldsworthy
my Brother left Coxheath this
Morning, I heard from their Majesties
a charming account of him --
Thursday past 2 --
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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/1/14/7
Correspondence Details
Sender: Martha Carolina Goldsworthy
Place sent: London
Addressee: Mary Hamilton
Place received: London (certainty: high)
Date sent: 5 November 1778
Letter Description
Summary: Letter from Martha Carolina Goldsworthy to Mary Hamilton. She asks Hamilton
to inform the princesses that their dinner will not be ready until three
o'clock as they are not to leave the Queen's house until two o'clock and
‘their Majesties’ do not return until Saturday.
Dated at Queen's House.
Original reference No. 5.
Length: 1 sheet, 134 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
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Revision date: 2 November 2021