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My Dst
I desired William would explain how
impoʃsible it was for me to write this
Morg, I am not very fit for it now,
tho I thank God my Dear Angels
are fast asleep, they have suffered a
great deal this day, & tho Hawkins[1]
aʃsures me (& indeed I am convinced
of it,) that every thing is as right
as poʃsible, yet my Heart bleeds
when I see what they actually
do & what I know they must
suffer before this is over, there
never was two such Dear little patient
Beings, which still interests one more
But do not my Dear figgett about
me, I am amazingly well, & my
Spirits keep up really amazingly, Mr
& Mrs. Smelt, are all kindneʃs to
me they have been with me to day
from three till 9 & do me an
infinite deal of good & contribute
to amuse the dear Angels where
they can be amused, God Bleʃs
you my Dear I feel to the
bottom of my Heart your
kindneʃs, pray give my Love
& Duty to every body. I can not
write more, but beg you will
tell Dr Ly Charlotte I will
write to her to morrow for the
last time, & that I thank her
a thousand times for her Letter. --
pray give my sincerest thanks
to Mr Glover (with my best Comps)
for his kind wishes to me
faithfuly Yr- --
MCG
ten o' Clock
Wedy Night
7th- April --
1779
Miʃs Hamilton
Queens House
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Normalised Text
My Dearest
I desired William would explain how
impossible it was for me to write this
Morning, I am not very fit for it now,
though I thank God my Dear Angels
are fast asleep, they have suffered a
great deal this day, & though Hawkins
assures me (& indeed I am convinced
of it,) that every thing is as right
as possible, yet my Heart bleeds
when I see what they actually
do & what I know they must
suffer before this is over, there
never was two such Dear little patient
Beings, which still interests one more
But do not my Dear fidget about
me, I am amazingly well, & my
Spirits keep up really amazingly, Mr
& Mrs. Smelt, are all kindness to
me they have been with me to day
from three till 9 & do me an
infinite deal of good & contribute
to amuse the dear Angels where
they can be amused, God Bless
you my Dear I feel to the
bottom of my Heart your
kindness, pray give my Love
& Duty to every body. I can not
write more, but beg you will
tell Dear Lady Charlotte I will
write to her to morrow for the
last time, & that I thank her
a thousand times for her Letter. --
pray give my sincerest thanks
to Mr Glover (with my best Compliments)
for his kind wishes to me
faithfully Yours --
Martha Carolina Goldsworthy
ten o' Clock
Wednesday Night
Miss Hamilton
Queens House
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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/1/14/13
Correspondence Details
Sender: Martha Carolina Goldsworthy
Place sent: unknown
Addressee: Mary Hamilton
Place received: London
Date sent: 7 April 1779
Letter Description
Summary: Letter from Martha Carolina Goldsworthy to Mary Hamilton. She writes that she had asked 'William' to explain to Hamilton that she could not ride that morning as she is not 'very fit for it'. She continues her letter on how her 'Spirits keep up really amazingly', and on the kindness of Mr and Mrs Smelt.
Original reference No. 11.
Length: 1 sheet, 249 words
Transliteration Information
Editorial declaration: First edited in the project 'Image to Text' (David Denison & Nuria Yáñez-Bouza, 2013-2019), now incorporated 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: XML version: Research Assistant funding in 2017/18 provided by the Department of Linguistics and English Language, University of Manchester.
Research assistant: Georgia Tutt, MA student, University of Manchester
Transliterator: Julia Öman, MA student, Uppsala University (submitted June 2018)
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