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HAM/1/14/10

Letter from Martha Carolina Goldsworthy to Mary Hamilton

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8.

                             Queens House
                             December 5th- 1778


I am very thankful my dearest to hear
or rather to see in your own hand that
you have been so supported under the
most afflicting Trial human Nature
is subject to; Your own good Sense
& the recollection that you have
performed to the last Moment
the utmost duty that a daughter
could bestow, will be a never failing
comfort. Let me now beseech you
as a Friend not to attempt to
do more than you are really
capable of, whenever you can come
without prejudice to yourself, you
will be received with open Arms, & feeling Hearts,



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but I again repeat do not be too
stout, nobody thinks or feels any
trouble, make yourself easy in
that point, Miʃs Planta most
chearfully aʃsists those hours in
the middle of the day that
you would be here. God Bleʃs
you my dear Child
      & believe me most
                             Afftly Yours
                             MCGoldsworthy
Saturday Night
      I beg my Comps to the
      Friends you are with
--

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                             Queens House
                             December 5th- 1778


I am very thankful my dearest to hear
or rather to see in your own hand that
you have been so supported under the
most afflicting Trial human Nature
is subject to; Your own good Sense
& the recollection that you have
performed to the last Moment
the utmost duty that a daughter
could bestow, will be a never failing
comfort. Let me now beseech you
as a Friend not to attempt to
do more than you are really
capable of, whenever you can come
without prejudice to yourself, you
will be received with open Arms, & feeling Hearts,





but I again repeat do not be too
stout, nobody thinks or feels any
trouble, make yourself easy in
that point, Miss Planta most
cheerfully assists those hours in
the middle of the day that
you would be here. God Bless
you my dear Child
      & believe me most
                             Affectionately Yours
                             Martha Carolina Goldsworthy
Saturday Night
      I beg my Compliments to the
      Friends you are with --

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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/1/14/10

Correspondence Details

Sender: Martha Carolina Goldsworthy

Place sent: London

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: unknown

Date sent: 5 December 1778

Letter Description

Summary: Letter from Martha Carolina Goldsworthy to Mary Hamilton. She writes to Hamilton after the death of her mother and begs Hamilton not to attempt to do more than she is capable of doing without injuring her own health. When she is ready to return to court she 'will be received with open Arms & feeling Hearts, but I again repeat do not be too stout'. Goldsworthy notes that Miss Planta is taking over Hamilton’s hours in the middle of the day until she comes back.
    Dated at the Queen's House.
    Original reference No. 8.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 170 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 29 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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