Unlocking the Mary Hamilton papers

Single Letter

HAM/1/14/69

Letter from Martha Carolina Goldsworthy to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text


63

Queens House
yr Dr  ------ 
 -  9th. Decbr. 1782
(29th?)

      Believe me my Dr very sensible of this
additional Token of yr friendship,
I shall ever esteem it in the light
that you wish, & shall look upon
it as one of the most valuable
ornaments of my Room, as given
me[1] by a Person whose Happineʃs I
shall ever be anxious for, & who
I am sure is sincere in her good
wishes for mine -- Adieu my Dst
Friend, I have thought of you
frequently this day -- May your
Slumbers this Night be sweeter
& more calm under the Roof of
your valuable Friend then I fear
they have been in a Palace
                             Ever Afly Yr- MCG

(hover over blue text or annotations for clarification;
red text is normalised and/or unformatted in other panel)


Notes


 1. According to her diary (HAM/2/2), 'I went to Miss Goldsworthy for ¼ of an hour' (14 December 1782), and she had written to Goldsworthy on 26 December. Hamilton was at home in London throughout this period.

Normalised Text



Queens House
your Dear  ------ 


      Believe me my Dear very sensible of this
additional Token of your friendship,
I shall ever esteem it in the light
that you wish, & shall look upon
it as one of the most valuable
ornaments of my Room, as given
me by a Person whose Happiness I
shall ever be anxious for, & who
I am sure is sincere in her good
wishes for mine -- Adieu my Dearest
Friend, I have thought of you
frequently this day -- May your
Slumbers this Night be sweeter
& more calm under the Roof of
your valuable Friend than I fear
they have been in a Palace
                             Ever Affectionately Yours Martha Carolina Goldsworthy

(consult diplomatic text or XML for annotations, deletions, clarifications, persons,
quotations, spellings, uncorrected forms, split words, abbreviations, formatting)



 1. According to her diary (HAM/2/2), 'I went to Miss Goldsworthy for ¼ of an hour' (14 December 1782), and she had written to Goldsworthy on 26 December. Hamilton was at home in London throughout this period.

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/1/14/69

Correspondence Details

Sender: Martha Carolina Goldsworthy

Place sent: London

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: London (certainty: high)

Date sent: 29 December 1782

Letter Description

Summary: Letter from Martha Carolina Goldsworthy to Mary Hamilton. The letter concerns a 'Token' of friendship that Hamilton had given Goldsworthy, which will be 'one of the most valuable ornaments of my Room'.
    Dated at the Queen's House.
    Original reference No. 63.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 114 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 2017/18 provided by the Department of Linguistics and English Language, University of Manchester.

Research assistant: Georgia Tutt, MA student, University of Manchester

Transliterator: Natalya Hobbs, MA student, Uppsala University (submitted June 2018)

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

Document Image (pdf)