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HAM/1/14/70

Note from Martha Carolina Goldsworthy to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text


81.
My Drst
I am exceedingly hurt to hear so indifferent an
account of you as William has just given
me, take care of yourself my Dear Friend
& do all your Doctor bids you, who I know
by experience is an excellent one, if any
of my Servants can be of any use pray
honestly say so, & be aʃsured it would give
me great satisfaction could I any way
be of use. As soon as Ly̅ Cha comes I
will give yr̅ Note she sent on f --- rore
to enquire after you adieu most Affly yr- MCG --



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Lady Charlotte is come back & has carried yr̅
Note down to the Queen desires her Love, as does
the Princeʃs's --

Miʃs
Hamilton
St
James[1]
[2]

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Notes


 1. This note has been split in two by unfolding. As a result the direction of reading has changed for both the address and the name.
 2. Traces of a seal in red wax.

Normalised Text



My Dearest
I am exceedingly hurt to hear so indifferent an
account of you as William has just given
me, take care of yourself my Dear Friend
& do all your Doctor bids you, who I know
by experience is an excellent one, if any
of my Servants can be of any use pray
honestly say so, & be assured it would give
me great satisfaction could I any way
be of use. As soon as Lady Charlotte comes I
will give your Note she sent on f --- rore
to enquire after you adieu most Affectionately yours Martha Carolina Goldsworthy --



▼

Lady Charlotte is come back & has carried your
Note down to the Queen desires her Love, as does
the Princess's --

Miss
Hamilton
St
James

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 1. This note has been split in two by unfolding. As a result the direction of reading has changed for both the address and the name.
 2. Traces of a seal in red wax.

Metadata

Library References

Repository: John Rylands Research Institute and Library, University of Manchester

Archive: Mary Hamilton Papers

Item title: Note from Martha Carolina Goldsworthy to Mary Hamilton

Shelfmark: HAM/1/14/70

Correspondence Details

Sender: Martha Carolina Goldsworthy

Place sent: unknown

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: London

Date sent: between June 1777 and November 1782
notBefore June 1777 (precision: high)
notAfter November 1782 (precision: high)

Letter Description

Summary: Note from Martha Carolina Goldsworthy to Mary Hamilton. She writes of Hamilton’s health and asks her to take care of herself and to do all her doctor tells her to do. She knows from her own experience that the doctor [Turton?] is an excellent one. Goldsworthy notes that if any of her servants can be of any use to her to let her know and she assures her that it would give her ‘equal satisfaction’ if she could be of any use.
    Goldsworthy also writes that Lady Charlotte Finch has returned and has taken Hamilton’s note to the Queen and the princesses send their love to Hamilton.
    Original reference No. 81.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 125 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 8 December 2020)

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: 27 September 2023

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