Diplomatic Text
Many thanks my dr for y kind
Note, my Cough is really much
better, & I am very well in every
respect. You say nothing of yr̅
self which I hope may be a good
Sign, but I did not like your
looks last Friday, it is not a
very polite thing to say to a Young
Lady, but it proceeds from good
will & real wish of yr̅ enjoying
that Health & Happineʃs wch I
wish -- The Children are all
well -- I gave yr̅ Love to Mou
Mou &c & assure they would return
it now if they knew I was writing --
pray keep the Key as long as you
please, you know I am sincere therefore
I mean you should really make that
Apartment convenient to you as long as yo[u]
[1]
please -- Adieu my dr
Affly Yr
McG --
I fear poor Me F's
sufferings are dreadful
Miʃs Hamilton
St James's[2]
red text is normalised and/or unformatted in other panel)
Normalised Text
Many thanks my dear for your kind
Note, my Cough is really much
better, & I am very well in every
respect. You say nothing of your
self which I hope may be a good
Sign, but I did not like your
looks last Friday, it is not a
very polite thing to say to a Young
Lady, but it proceeds from good
will & real wish of your enjoying
that Health & Happiness which I
wish -- The Children are all
well -- I gave your Love to Mou
Mou &c & assure they would return
it now if they knew I was writing --
pray keep the Key as long as you
please, you know I am sincere therefore
I mean you should really make that
Apartment convenient to you as long as you
please -- Adieu my dear
Affectionately Yours
Martha Carolina Goldsworthy --
I fear poor Madame de la Fite's
sufferings are dreadful
Miss Hamilton
St James's
quotations, spellings, uncorrected forms, split words, abbreviations, formatting)
Notes
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/1/14/66
Correspondence Details
Sender: Martha Carolina Goldsworthy
Place sent: unknown
Addressee: Mary Hamilton
Place received: London
Date sent: 8 December 1782
Letter Description
Summary: Letter from Martha Carolina Goldsworthy to Mary Hamilton, concerning her own
and Hamilton’s health. She notes that it is not a ‘polite thing to say to a
lady’ but that she did not like Hamilton’s looks the last time she saw
her.
Goldsworthy also informs Hamilton that the royal children in her charge are
all well.
Original reference No. 60.
Length: 1 sheet, 156 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: Christine Wallis, editorial team (completed 29 September 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