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HAM/1/14/7

Letter from Martha Carolina Goldsworthy to Mary Hamilton

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5.



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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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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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

Copyright: Transcriptions, notes and TEI/XML © the editors

Revision date: 2 November 2021

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