Diplomatic Text
My Dearest
I have no News of any sort to entertain
you with, no Events interesting or
uninteresting to relate but towo lines I
scrawl to inquire after you & to aʃsure
you that I have thought frequently
of your fall, which I sincerly hope has
not been attended with any bad
consequences. The Weather except to
Chapel has not allowed us to stir out
till this Morning, from three o'Clock
till ½ pt Seven yesterday I paʃsed with
Mrs Hagedorn, Mrs Smelt and Genl
Freitag & to compleat it, the last
hour I had the additional happineʃs of
Mrs Bludworths Company, you will
not wonder then my Dear at the
total anihilation of every bright
Idea, if it was to last long I should
be unfit for Society. God Bleʃs you
my Dearest I still have Life enough
left to aʃsure you of my
Sincere Affection --
MC Goldsworthy
Queens Lodge
Monday Morg
Love to Mou Mou &c
& Affte Duty to dear Prʃs Elizabeth
Mary & Sophia --
Miʃs Hamilton
Kew
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Normalised Text
My Dearest
I have no News of any sort to entertain
you with, no Events interesting or
uninteresting to relate but two lines I
scrawl to inquire after you & to assure
you that I have thought frequently
of your fall, which I sincerely hope has
not been attended with any bad
consequences. The Weather except to
Chapel has not allowed us to stir out
till this Morning, from three o'Clock
till ½ past Seven yesterday I passed with
Mrs Hagedorn, Mrs Smelt and General
Freitag & to complete it, the last
hour I had the additional happiness of
Mrs Bludworths Company, you will
not wonder then my Dear at the
total annihilation of every bright
Idea, if it was to last long I should
be unfit for Society. God Bless you
my Dearest I still have Life enough
left to assure you of my
Sincere Affection --
Martha Carolina Goldsworthy
Queens Lodge
Monday Morning
Love to Mou Mou &c
& Affectionate Duty to dear Princess Elizabeth
Mary & Sophia --
Miss Hamilton
Kew
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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/1/14/28
Correspondence Details
Sender: Martha Carolina Goldsworthy
Place sent: Windsor
Addressee: Mary Hamilton
Place received: Kew
Date sent: 18 October 1779
Letter Description
Summary: Letter from Martha Carolina Goldsworthy to Mary Hamilton. She writes to enquire how Hamilton is after her fall. She has already made two enquiries and hopes there are no bad consequences resulting from it.
Goldsworthy notes that she has no interesting news and there have been no interesting events to relate.
Original reference No. 26.
Length: 1 sheet, 172 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 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