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Queens Lodge Friday Night --
Octbr.Novbr. 1779
Tho I have never had it in my power to write
yet I have often thought of you my Dst
I know seize the moment whilst Prʃs
Augusta is writing her German to as
I am as you know besides all my other
Capacitys Teacher, & her Leʃsons &
Prʃs Elizh are always with me in
English, they go on very well & desire
their Love, & I must do them Justice
that if they have not wrote it
has not been their fault, but
indeed they have not had time but
they talk of it -- Our Life has
gone on pretty much as usual, to
morrow is a Hunting day, whether
we go you know is always a
Secret, pray kiʃs Dear Prʃs Mary
& thank her for her Meʃsage, &
that the Queen was much pleased
with her ------ good resolutions.
Mrs Tolpey appeared at Chapel
last Wednesday with in a Grey
Riding Habit there is no describing
her Figure, I did keep my Countenance
but Mr Lyte & Col. Hotham laughd
the whole time, I wish you could
have seen it. God Bleʃs you my Dst
will you be so good as to give
my Love to Miʃs Harriot & tell
her the first moment I can I
will write & thank her for her
very entertaining Letter I am
most Affly Yr
MCG --
Love to Chi Chi --
Pray kiss Prʃs Sophia --
Miʃs Hamilton
Kew
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Normalised Text
Queens Lodge Friday Night --
Though I have never had it in my power to write
yet I have often thought of you my Dearest
I now seize the moment whilst Princess
Augusta is writing her German as
I am as you know besides all my other
Capacities Teacher, & her Lessons &
Princess Elizabeth are always with me in
English, they go on very well & desire
their Love, & I must do them Justice
that if they have not written it
has not been their fault, but
indeed they have not had time but
they talk of it -- Our Life has
gone on pretty much as usual, to
morrow is a Hunting day, whether
we go you know is always a
Secret, pray kiss Dear Princess Mary
& thank her for her Message, &
that the Queen was much pleased
with her good resolutions.
Mrs Tolpey appeared at Chapel
last Wednesday in a Grey
Riding Habit there is no describing
her Figure, I did keep my Countenance
but Mr Lyte & Colonel Hotham laughed
the whole time, I wish you could
have seen it. God Bless you my Dearest
will you be so good as to give
my Love to Miss Harriot & tell
her the first moment I can I
will write & thank her for her
very entertaining Letter I am
most Affectionately Yours
Martha Carolina Goldsworthy --
Love to Chi Chi --
Pray kiss Princess 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/1/14/33
Correspondence Details
Sender: Martha Carolina Goldsworthy
Place sent: Windsor
Addressee: Mary Hamilton
Place received: London
Date sent: November 1779
Letter Description
Summary: Letter from Martha Carolina Goldsworthy to Mary Hamilton, relating to the princesses, especially Elizabeth and Augusta.
Dated at the Queen's Lodge.
Length: 1 sheet, 241 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: Richard Mole, 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