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HAM/1/14/75

Note from Martha Carolina Goldsworthy to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text


86[1]
Send me word how you do, if you
want any Slops[2] my Servant makes
them very well. God Bleʃs you
my Dear Good Night
                             Affly Yr-
                                                         MCG

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Notes


 1. This annotation appears vertically in the left margin.
 2. ‘Liquid or semi-liquid food of a weak, unappetizing kind; applied contemptuously to invalids' spoon-food, tea, etc. Now usually plural.’ (OED s.v. slop n. 2, 3a. Accessed 01-02-2021).

Normalised Text



Send me word how you do, if you
want any Slops my Servant makes
them very well. God Bless you
my Dear Good Night
                             Affectionately Yours
                                                         Martha Carolina Goldsworthy

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 1. This annotation appears vertically in the left margin.
 2. ‘Liquid or semi-liquid food of a weak, unappetizing kind; applied contemptuously to invalids' spoon-food, tea, etc. Now usually plural.’ (OED s.v. slop n. 2, 3a. Accessed 01-02-2021).

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/1/14/75

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: medium)

Letter Description

Summary: Note from Martha Carolina Goldsworthy to Mary Hamilton. She asks Hamilton to send her word if she wants any 'slops' as her 'servant makes them very well'.
    Original reference No. 86.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 29 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 15 September 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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