Diplomatic Text
My Dr
I am sincerly hurt, to find that you have
any real cause for yr present lowneʃs,
for I flattered myself it was only owing to
the additional fatigue that my
absence has ocaʃsioned, & that I
know & am positive you are not
equal to; yet I feel for you sincerly
my Dear Friend, & shall beg to
know the causes, I am one of those
that think that it in some small
measure relieves ones mind, the
opening ones Bosom to a Friend,
be aʃsured you never will have
reason to repent the doing it with me
tho perhaps it may not be in my
power to be of eʃsential service, but
be aʃsured my Dear it would make
me happy if I could, & that I
would try every method. You
will easily imagine how much I
wish to return, & I will not give
up all hopes, thank God the
Dear Children are quite well, &
it is to be washed all over again
to night therefore it appears to
me impoʃsible that there can
be any infection left, nor will
any thing convince me to the
contrary but as I am not to
decide it is of little consequence,
their Spirits are beyond what you
can imagine, & I do aʃsure you
that I am surprised that I am
not quite distracted, for they never
leave me from ½ pt 7 in the Morg till they go
to Bed at night except the hour
I am at Dinner. My Dr have
God Bleʃs you, do not exert
yr self too much, be aʃsured that
every body is convinced that you
gdo beyond what yr Strength
will allow believe me very
faithfuly yr
Affect
MCG --
the Children
desire their Love, I scarcely
know what I write they make
such an inceʃsant Noise
pt Seven 3d. May 1779 --
A thousand thanks
for all the good thing[s]
you sent --
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Normalised Text
My Dear
I am sincerely hurt, to find that you have
any real cause for your present lowness,
for I flattered myself it was only owing to
the additional fatigue that my
absence has occasioned, & that I
know & am positive you are not
equal to; yet I feel for you sincerely
my Dear Friend, & shall beg to
know the causes, I am one of those
that think that it in some small
measure relieves ones mind, the
opening ones Bosom to a Friend,
be assured you never will have
reason to repent the doing it with me
though perhaps it may not be in my
power to be of essential service, but
be assured my Dear it would make
me happy if I could, & that I
would try every method. You
will easily imagine how much I
wish to return, & I will not give
up all hopes, thank God the
Dear Children are quite well, &
it is to be washed all over again
to night therefore it appears to
me impossible that there can
be any infection left, nor will
any thing convince me to the
contrary but as I am not to
decide it is of little consequence,
their Spirits are beyond what you
can imagine, & I do assure you
that I am surprised that I am
not quite distracted, for they never
leave me from ½ past 7 in the Morning till they go
to Bed at night except the hour
I am at Dinner. My Dear have
God Bless you, do not exert
your self too much, be assured that
every body is convinced that you
do beyond what your Strength
will allow believe me very
faithfully yours
Affectionately
Martha Carolina Goldsworthy --
the Children
desire their Love, I scarcely
know what I write they make
such an incessant Noise
past Seven
A thousand thanks
for all the good things
you sent --
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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/1/14/20
Correspondence Details
Sender: Martha Carolina Goldsworthy
Place sent: unknown
Addressee: Mary Hamilton
Place received: unknown
Date sent: 3 May 1779
Letter Description
Summary: Letter from Martha Carolina Goldsworthy to Mary Hamilton, concerning Hamilton’s low spirits and the royal children. She believes that 'opening one['] Bosom to a Friend' relieves one's mind, and she assures Hamilton that 'you never will have reason to repent the doing it with me'. She is thankful that the royal children are all well and 'it appears to me impossible that there can be any infection left'. Their spirits 'are beyond what you can imagine', and they never leave Goldsworthy, from half past seven in the morning until they go to bed, except for the hour when Goldsworthy is at dinner.
Original reference No. 18.
Length: 1 sheet, 321 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: David Denison, editorial team (completed February 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