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HAM/1/14/32

Letter from Martha Carolina Goldsworthy to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text


30[1]
                             1779          28th Novbr
                                                         Anniversary ye
                                                         5th of my
                                                         Sub Governship
My Deart[2]

Send me word how yr Cold
is, & whether you have
been a good Child & obeyed
all my orders, I am
vastly well, my Voice
begins to be melodious
& I cough very little
Prʃs Elizth & Moumou send
their Love, & I am
                             my Dear Affly Yr
                                                         MCG --


[3]


Miʃs Hamilton

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Notes


 1. This number is written vertically along the left margin.
 2. The salutation appears to the left of the dateline.
 3. A seal in red wax remains intact.

Normalised Text



                                       28th November
                                                         Anniversary the
                                                         5th of my
                                                         Sub Governess-ship
My Dearest

Send me word how your Cold
is, & whether you have
been a good Child & obeyed
all my orders, I am
vastly well, my Voice
begins to be melodious
& I cough very little
Princess Elizabeth & Moumou send
their Love, & I am
                             my Dear Affectionately Yours
                                                         Martha Carolina Goldsworthy --





Miss Hamilton

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 1. This number is written vertically along the left margin.
 2. The salutation appears to the left of the dateline.
 3. A seal in red wax remains intact.

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/1/14/32

Correspondence Details

Sender: Martha Carolina Goldsworthy

Place sent: unknown

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: unknown

Date sent: 28 November 1779

Letter Description

Summary: Letter from Martha Carolina Goldsworthy to Mary Hamilton. She asks for news of Hamilton’s cold and hopes that she has been a 'good child' and followed her instructions. She is herself ill and begins to cough by 'melodies'.
    Original reference No. 30.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 65 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.

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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