Unlocking the Mary Hamilton papers

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HAM/1/14/80

Letter from Martha Carolina Goldsworthy to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text


92

My dr
to convince you that I do as I would be
done by, I intend to beg you will be so
good as to stay for me at Kew House
till half pt 3 as I found a Note from
Mrs Rotham to say she would dine
with me, as well as her Daughter Adieu
Ever Affly Yr-
MCG

pray tell the dr little penitent
that her Tears will never be forgot,
& that I love her better than I did
this Morning --


Miʃs Hamilton[1]

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Notes


 1. The addressee's name is split in two, with different orientations, by unfolding.

Normalised Text



My dear
to convince you that I do as I would be
done by, I intend to beg you will be so
good as to stay for me at Kew House
till half past 3 as I found a Note from
Mrs Rotham to say she would dine
with me, as well as her Daughter Adieu
Ever Affectionately Yours
Martha Carolina Goldsworthy


pray tell the dear little penitent
that her Tears will never be forgot,
& that I love her better than I did
this Morning --


Miss Hamilton

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 1. The addressee's name is split in two, with different orientations, by unfolding.

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/1/14/80

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: Letter from Martha Carolina Goldsworthy to Mary Hamilton. To 'convince you that I do as I should be done by', she begs Hamilton to stay at Kew House until she gets there at 3.30. Goldsworthy has found a note written by a Mrs Northam to say that she would dine with her as well as her daughter.
    Original reference No. 92.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 88 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 1 October 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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