Diplomatic Text
Most sincerely hurt I am to find my
dearest that you are in such real
distreʃs, & believe me sincere when I
say I should be happy if I
could relieve you, or contribute
towards your feeling leʃs, I fear with
such scenes the Blister will have
little effect, however my dearest
compose yourself, & let the conscious-
neʃs of your acting so Dutifully
be your consolation, believe me my
Love it will in the end & I trust
you will meet with the reward
your Filial Piety deserves, I see
nothing but what is proper in
your Note, dutyful & Affectionate
it is to a degree, God Grant you
may not be obliged to write ever
such another Adieu I wish you
may sleep, believe me (if that is of
any comfort) that you have
the sincere & Affectionate wishes
for every happineʃs from
Your
MCGoldsworthy
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Normalised Text
Most sincerely hurt I am to find my
dearest that you are in such real
distress, & believe me sincere when I
say I should be happy if I
could relieve you, or contribute
towards your feeling less, I fear with
such scenes the Blister will have
little effect, however my dearest
compose yourself, & let the consciousness
of your acting so Dutifully
be your consolation, believe me my
Love it will in the end & I trust
you will meet with the reward
your Filial Piety deserves, I see
nothing but what is proper in
your Note, dutiful & Affectionate
it is to a degree, God Grant you
may not be obliged to write ever
such another Adieu I wish you
may sleep, believe me (if that is of
any comfort) that you have
the sincere & Affectionate wishes
for every happiness from
Your
Martha Carolina Goldsworthy
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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/1/14/71
Correspondence Details
Sender: Martha Carolina Goldsworthy
Place sent: unknown
Addressee: Mary Hamilton
Place received: unknown
Date sent: between June 1777 and November 1782
notBefore June 1777 (precision: medium)
notAfter November 1782 (precision: low)
Letter Description
Summary: Note from Martha Carolina Goldsworthy to Mary Hamilton, concerning Hamilton’s health. She is ‘hurt’ to know that she is in such ‘distress’.
Original reference No. 82.
Length: 1 sheet, 148 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: Tino Oudesluijs, editorial team (completed 30 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: 27 September 2023