Diplomatic Text
46
Queens House Tuesday Evg
16 April 1781
I beg my dear you will acquaint Her
Majesty with my Humble Duty that Doctor
Turton aʃsures me Princeʃs Augusta continues
gaining Ground, what I think is the
most troublesome part of her Complaint
at present, is that weasineʃs which she
feels allmost constantly, however our
Walk was a little longer this Mng
& we are just returned from a very fine
Airing, H R H ------ me to present her
Duty to their Majesties & love to the
Princeʃs's, with thanks to Prʃs Elizabeth
for her Letter. I hope P Royal has
had no return of her Complaint, I beg
my Affectionate duty to her & Prʃs Elizth
Adieu my Dear I hope you feel
the good Effects of this charming
Weather
Affly Yr-
MCGoldsworthy
Princeʃs Mary Princeʃs Sophia & the two
little Princes are perfectly well --
red text is normalised and/or unformatted in other panel)
Normalised Text
Queens House Tuesday Evening
16 April 1781
I beg my dear you will acquaint Her
Majesty with my Humble Duty that Doctor
Turton assures me Princess Augusta continues
gaining Ground, what I think is the
most troublesome part of her Complaint
at present, is that wheeziness which she
feels almost constantly, however our
Walk was a little longer this Morning
& we are just returned from a very fine
Airing, Her Royal Highness ------ me to present her
Duty to their Majesties & love to the
Princesses, with thanks to Princess Elizabeth
for her Letter. I hope Princess Royal has
had no return of her Complaint, I beg
my Affectionate duty to her & Princess Elizabeth
Adieu my Dear I hope you feel
the good Effects of this charming
Weather
Affectionately Yours
Martha Carolina Goldsworthy
Princess Mary Princess Sophia & the two
little Princes are perfectly well --
quotations, spellings, uncorrected forms, split words, abbreviations, formatting)
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/1/14/50
Correspondence Details
Sender: Martha Carolina Goldsworthy
Place sent: London
Addressee: Mary Hamilton
Place received: unknown
Date sent: 16 April 1781
Letter Description
Summary: Letter from Martha Carolina Goldsworthy to Mary Hamilton. She updates
Hamilton with a report from Dr Turton on the health of Princess Augusta and
asks her to present this information to the Queen.
Dated at the Queen's House.
Original reference No. 46.
Length: 1 sheet, 146 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.
Transliterator: Cassandra Ulph, editorial team (completed 10 December 2020)
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