Diplomatic Text
Lower Lodge ye 289th October
83
I ought my dear to have thanked you much
sooner for your kind & obliging Letter, but
you know how fully employed my Time is
& that besides that I have not the
Pen of a ready writer -- I was happy
to hear you had paʃsed your Summer so
pleasantly, nothing can equal the
Satisfaction of finding that those we
love, really Love us, may you ever have
that Satisfaction is my sincere wish --
I hope Lady Wake is quite recovered
& that Sir William is free from Gout --
Lady Charlotte is at Burley I expect
her in about Ten days. My Brother
I am likewise in some hopes of seeing
either to day or to morrow, which I am
sure you will be glad to know for
my sake. News you know I am not
in a Situation to hear, we are all well
& I have hitherto thank God escaped
Bleeding or a Blister -- Adieu my dear
I sincerly wish you well & happy
& am Affly Yr
MCGoldsworthy
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Normalised Text
Lower Lodge the 29th October
83
I ought my dear to have thanked you much
sooner for your kind & obliging Letter, but
you know how fully employed my Time is
& besides that I have not the
Pen of a ready writer -- I was happy
to hear you had passed your Summer so
pleasantly, nothing can equal the
Satisfaction of finding that those we
love, really Love us, may you ever have
that Satisfaction is my sincere wish --
I hope Lady Wake is quite recovered
& that Sir William is free from Gout --
Lady Charlotte is at Burley I expect
her in about Ten days. My Brother
I am likewise in some hopes of seeing
either to day or to morrow, which I am
sure you will be glad to know for
my sake. News you know I am not
in a Situation to hear, we are all well
& I have hitherto thank God escaped
Bleeding or a Blister -- Adieu my dear
I sincerely wish you well & happy
& am Affectionately Yours
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/1/14/95
Correspondence Details
Sender: Martha Carolina Goldsworthy
Place sent: Windsor
Addressee: Mary Hamilton
Place received: unknown
Date sent: 29 October 1783
Letter Description
Summary: Letter from Martha Carolina Goldsworthy to Mary Hamilton. She should have
thanked Hamilton sooner for her letter but that she knows ‘how fully
employed my time is’. She is happy to know that she had passed her summer
pleasantly [Hamilton spent some time with Lady and Sir William Wake].
Nothing ‘can equal the satisfaction of finding that those we Love mostly
Love us, may you ever have that satisfaction’. Goldsworthy makes enquiries
on the Wakes and hopes that Sir William is free of gout and continues her
letter with news of her family.
Dated at the Lower Lodge [Windsor].
Original reference No. 70.
Length: 1 sheet, 178 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