Diplomatic Text
Windsor
My Dear
I delivered the Necklace as you desired
& Her Majesty was very much pleased
with it & admired it very much --
Nothing facetious of any sort has hitherto
happened what this day & to morrow
may produce you shall certainly know
on Wednesday, Mrs Bludworth, Mrs
Hagedorn, Mr Arnald & Genl Freitag
are to go in a Coach to the Chase to
morrow, I think it will be a compleat
day the Lord keep me from it, only
think how Lovely the Musick Room
was last Night, Mrs Smelt, Mrs
Bludworth Mrs Hagedorn, & my
self, don't you pity me? & for an
Hour did the King force me to sit
with them, he was a good while before
he compaʃsed it for I tried very hard,
but at last was obliged to submit
with a good grace -- I believe the
Princes are arrived as I saw the
Guard, but I would not presume
to know more -- God Bleʃs you
my Dear
Affy Y-
MCG --
My Love to Moumou &c &c --
½ pt two Monday --
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Normalised Text
My Dear
I delivered the Necklace as you desired
& Her Majesty was very much pleased
with it & admired it very much --
Nothing facetious of any sort has hitherto
happened what this day & to morrow
may produce you shall certainly know
on Wednesday, Mrs Bludworth, Mrs
Hagedorn, Mr Arnald & General Freitag
are to go in a Coach to the Chase to
morrow, I think it will be a complete
day the Lord keep me from it, only
think how Lovely the Music Room
was last Night, Mrs Smelt, Mrs
Bludworth Mrs Hagedorn, & my
self, don't you pity me? & for an
Hour did the King force me to sit
with them, he was a good while before
he compassed it for I tried very hard,
but at last was obliged to submit
with a good grace -- I believe the
Princes are arrived as I saw the
Guard, but I would not presume
to know more -- God Bless you
my Dear
Affectionately Yours
Martha Carolina Goldsworthy --
My Love to Moumou &c &c --
½ past two Monday --
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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/1/14/27
Correspondence Details
Sender: Martha Carolina Goldsworthy
Place sent: Windsor
Addressee: Mary Hamilton
Place received: unknown
Date sent: 11 October 1779
Letter Description
Summary: Letter from Martha Carolina Goldsworthy to Mary Hamilton. She writes that she delivered the necklace as Hamilton had asked and that the Queen was very pleased with it 'and admired it very much'. She continues her letter with news of acquaintances including the Smelts and Mrs Hagurdon. She believes that the princes have arrived as she as seen the guard but she will 'not presume to know more'.
Dated at Windsor.
Original reference No. 25.
Length: 1 sheet, 179 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 2018/19 provided by the Department of Linguistics and English Language, University of Manchester.
Research assistant: Chenming Gao, undergraduate student, University of Manchester
Transliterator: Catharina Gaby Romero, MA student, Uppsala University (submitted June 2019)
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