Diplomatic Text
pt 10 Monday
Night
My Dst
I really have not had time
to day to answer your kind
Note, which gave me great
Satisfaction, I hope to hear
you are as stout to morrow
but pray do not be too
much so, for I know what
illneʃs is, I hope you will
not again be so well
acquainted with it, nor
never so much so as your
Mama Goldsworthy,
hope you have heard that
my Brother has constantly
enquired after you, he has
interested himself very much,
so indeed does every body
here. Adieu my Dear
Child, I am vastly Stout
& you will find me quite
fat I had an oportunity
of doing what you desire
me to Dr Turton to day
the more you know him
the better you will
like him God Bleʃs yo[u]
Affly Yr-
MCG --
Miʃs Hamilton
St James's
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Normalised Text
past 10 Monday
Night
My Dearest
I really have not had time
to day to answer your kind
Note, which gave me great
Satisfaction, I hope to hear
you are as stout to morrow
but pray do not be too
much so, for I know what
illness is, I hope you will
not again be so well
acquainted with it, nor
never so much so as your
Mama Goldsworthy,
hope you have heard that
my Brother has constantly
enquired after you, he has
interested himself very much,
so indeed does every body
here. Adieu my Dear
Child, I am vastly Stout
& you will find me quite
fat I had an opportunity
of doing what you desire
me to Dr Turton to day
the more you know him
the better you will
like him God Bless you
Affectionately Yours
Martha Carolina Goldsworthy --
Miss Hamilton
St James's
quotations, spellings, uncorrected forms, split words, abbreviations, formatting)
Notes
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/1/14/84
Correspondence Details
Sender: Martha Carolina Goldsworthy
Place sent: unknown
Addressee: Mary Hamilton
Place received: London
Date sent: between 1782 and 1783
notBefore 1782 (precision: low)
notAfter 1783 (precision: low)
Letter Description
Summary: Letter from Martha Carolina Goldsworthy to Mary Hamilton. She had no time today to answer Hamilton's note which gave her great satisfaction to read. She hopes that she will be with her tomorrow and writes on her health. Goldsworthy notes that she knows what illness is and hopes that Hamilton 'will not again be so acquainted with it'. She informs Hamilton that her brother often made enquiries after her. Goldsworthy writes that she is stout and notes that Hamilton will find her to be quite fat now.
Original reference No. 97.
Length: 1 sheet, 146 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 2018/19 provided by the Department of Linguistics and English Language, University of Manchester.
Research assistant: Chenming Gao, undergraduate student, University of Manchester
Transliterator: Mariola Kotromanac, MA student, Uppsala University (submitted June 2019)
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