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Queens Lower Lodge ye 16th October
1787
I return you many thanks my Dear Friend
for your very kind enquiries which I red this
Morning, I have been very ill ever since
the beginning of July, & have been absent
above two Months as Dr Turton said change
of Air was absolutely neceʃsary I returned
here Ten days ago, & am thank God much
better but tho have still some remains of Pain
in my Side, but as I have lost the Fever,
with care, I have great hopes I shall
by degrees regain the first of all Bleʃsings
Health, but I am not so strong as you
remember me, nor equal to do half the
duty, but the Queen has been & is very
indulging to me, & I do nothing that
fatigues me, indeed Her Majesty was so
gracious as to wish me to be absent till
the latter end of this Month, but I desired
to return, & I have no reason to repent it
for the Weather has been so mild that
I am vastly better then when I came --
I am very glad to hear your Sweet
little Girl has been inoculated, for I
can not help being a Coward, & think
it a great Bleʃsing when the Small Pox
is happily over, every day now she will
grow more entertaining, & I doubt not
her being pleasing, as I am sure you
will not spoil her -- I beg you will
give my Comps to Mr Dickenson & believe
me Ever my dear Mrs Dickenson
Sincerely
Yr
MCGoldsworthy
Miʃs Goldsworthy
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Queens Lower Lodge the 16th October
1787
I return you many thanks my Dear Friend
for your very kind enquiries which I received this
Morning, I have been very ill ever since
the beginning of July, & have been absent
above two Months as Dr Turton said change
of Air was absolutely necessary I returned
here Ten days ago, & am thank God much
better though have still some remains of Pain
in my Side, but as I have lost the Fever,
with care, I have great hopes I shall
by degrees regain the first of all Blessings
Health, but I am not so strong as you
remember me, nor equal to do half the
duty, but the Queen has been & is very
indulging to me, & I do nothing that
fatigues me, indeed Her Majesty was so
gracious as to wish me to be absent till
the latter end of this Month, but I desired
to return, & I have no reason to repent it
for the Weather has been so mild that
I am vastly better than when I came --
I am very glad to hear your Sweet
little Girl has been inoculated, for I
can not help being a Coward, & think
it a great Blessing when the Small Pox
is happily over, every day now she will
grow more entertaining, & I doubt not
her being pleasing, as I am sure you
will not spoil her -- I beg you will
give my Compliments to Mr Dickenson & believe
me Ever my dear Mrs Dickenson
Sincerely
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/1/14/104
Correspondence Details
Sender: Martha Carolina Goldsworthy
Place sent: London
Addressee: Mary Hamilton
Place received: unknown
Date sent: 16 October 1787
Letter Description
Summary: Letter from Martha Carolina Goldsworthy to Mary Hamilton. She writes that
she has been ill since July and was absent from Court for two months as Dr
Turton has advised her that this is absolutely necessary. The letter
continues on her health and on the Queen's understanding insisting that she
does nothing that will fatigue her.
Dated at the Queen's House.
Original reference No. 79.
Length: 1 sheet, 264 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