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56
Lower Lodge Saturday
24 August
1782
As you have my Dr heard every Day from
this House, & as I have nothing to say very
comfortable I begged Ly, Charlotte would
thank you for yr Affte Letter, I can
not however refrain from doing it to day
myself.
I am thankful to hear their Majesties
are well, & trust in God this is the
only Trial[1] they will experience, the
certainty of the Dear Angels Happineʃs
ought & is certainly the greatest
comfort, but yet to you I will
own that this sad Scene has
taken deep root in my Heart, &
Time alone will get soften it.
I am sorry you are not well, take
care of yr self, I daresay by the time
you return I shall be quite well
whether Sick or well believe me
Ever my Dr Yr
faithful
& Affte
MCGoldsworthy
Saturday --
Mrs Cheveley desires her kind Comps
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Lower Lodge Saturday
24
As you have my Dear heard every Day from
this House, & as I have nothing to say very
comfortable I begged Lady Charlotte would
thank you for your Affectionate Letter, I can
not however refrain from doing it to day
myself.
I am thankful to hear their Majesties
are well, & trust in God this is the
only Trial they will experience, the
certainty of the Dear Angels Happiness
ought & is certainly the greatest
comfort, but yet to you I will
own that this sad Scene has
taken deep root in my Heart, &
Time alone will soften it.
I am sorry you are not well, take
care of your self, I daresay by the time
you return I shall be quite well
whether Sick or well believe me
Ever my Dear Your
faithful
& Affectionate
Martha Carolina Goldsworthy
Saturday --
Mrs Cheveley desires her kind Compliments
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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/1/14/61
Correspondence Details
Sender: Martha Carolina Goldsworthy
Place sent: Windsor
Addressee: Mary Hamilton
Place received: unknown
Date sent: 24 August 1782
Letter Description
Summary: Letter from Martha Carolina Goldsworthy to Mary Hamilton. She reports that their Majesties are well, and she hopes that 'this is the only Trial they will experience' [a reference to the death of Prince Alfred four days earlier].
Dated at Lower Lodge.
Original reference No. 56.
Length: 1 sheet, 152 words
Transliteration Information
Editorial declaration: First edited in the project 'Image to Text' (David Denison & Nuria Yáñez-Bouza, 2013-2019), now incorporated 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: XML version: Research Assistant funding in 2017/18 provided by the Department of Linguistics and English Language, University of Manchester.
Research assistant: Georgia Tutt, MA student, University of Manchester
Transliterator: Linda Norrgård, MA student, Uppsala University (submitted June 2018)
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