Diplomatic Text
Queens Lower Lodge Windsor
17th August 1783
If I had not long left off that
Childish thing called Wonder, I
should I own have done so very much
this Morning at the Receipt of y̅r
Letter, as I own it is totally incompre-
hensible to me, as I am not conscious
“of not having answered your Letters,
or ceased to allow you a share of my
request,” nor can you for a Moment
if you will give yourself the trouble
to think, recollect one Instance that
deserves that Imputation since I first
had the pleasure of yr̅ Acquaintance
I can not help thinking but
that Miʃs Planta must have
mistaken about the Meʃsages wc̅h
she troubled you with (at least
as to the time I am sure she must
for I certainly could not think of
giving you any in a Letter, wc̅h
answered one in the which my Name
was not even mentioned, & I had
red some time ago both from you
& Miʃs Ann Clarke Miʃs Forbes's
direction, & sent her the last Quarter.
I sincerely wish you all Health
& Happineʃs & am Dear Miʃs Hamil[ton]
faithful
H St
MCGoldsworthy
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Normalised Text
Queens Lower Lodge Windsor
If I had not long left off that
Childish thing called Wonder, I
should I own have done so very much
this Morning at the Receipt of your
Letter, as I own it is totally incomprehensible
to me, as I am not conscious
“of not having answered your Letters,
or ceased to allow you a share of my
request,” nor can you for a Moment
if you will give yourself the trouble
to think, recollect one Instance that
deserves that Imputation since I first
had the pleasure of your Acquaintance
I can not help thinking but
that Miss Planta must have
mistaken about the Messages which
she troubled you with (at least
as to the time I am sure she must
for I certainly could not think of
giving you any in a Letter, which
answered one in the which my Name
was not even mentioned, & I had
received some time ago both from you
& Miss Ann Clarke Miss Forbes's
direction, & sent her the last Quarter.
I sincerely wish you all Health
& Happiness & am Dear Miss Hamilton
faithful
Humble Servant
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: Letter from Martha Carolina Goldsworthy to Mary Hamilton
Shelfmark: HAM/1/14/94
Correspondence Details
Sender: Martha Carolina Goldsworthy
Place sent: Windsor
Addressee: Mary Hamilton
Place received: unknown
Date sent: 17 August 1783
Letter Description
Summary: Letter from Martha Carolina Goldsworthy to Mary Hamilton. She writes of some
confusion between her and Hamilton concerning the receipt of a letter.
Dated at the Lower Lodge [Windsor].
Original reference No. 69.
Length: 1 sheet, 192 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 1 October 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: 2 November 2021