Translation / modern text
[P. 32]
Lviv, November 23, 1697
My Most Illustrious and Beloved Benefactor!
Having arrived here for the wedding of Miss [...] my sister, and having learned of the health of Your Grace, my beloved Benefactor, I humbly bow and ask that I may remain in the unchanging favor of Your Grace, my Lord, as a loving sister.
[P. 33]
Regarding the health of Her Ladyship, my sister-in-law, I inform you that she is in perfect health; she is also here [and] I am entertaining [her] as best I can. We are eagerly awaiting both His Grace, my Benefactor, and Your Grace, my Lord, here. Please inform us how soon [...] we are to be, as it has happened here that [he/she] is to be invited [...].
[P. 34]
Beloved Benefactor, I inform you how soon you must [come], for [...] the little heart should not listen to them there, only my son Stanisław will arrive there and there will be money for him to arrive there. If he were not to be there soon, he would have to go to Volhynia [...] shame [...]
[P. 35]
until now. And I ask again: please inform me, my beloved Benefactor, about this [...] and keep me in your favor, to which having surrendered myself, I remain
Your Grace's, my Lord's,
heartily loving sister and humble servant
A. Dolska
To His Grace, my Benefactor, I humbly convey [...] I explain in a separate letter, for His Grace, my Benefactor, is always busy.
[P. 36, Address:]
To the Most Illustrious His Grace, the Voivode and General of the Ruthenian Lands, my most Gracious Lord and Heartily Beloved Brother.
Deliver
Original wording — transcription
[S. 32]
we Lwowie d[nia] 23
Novemb[ris] 1697
Jasnie wielmozny moy
kochany Dobrodzieiu
Ziechawszy tu na wesele Panny
[...] siostry a dowiedziawszy sie o zdrowiu
WM[ci] kochanego Dobrodzieia
z niskiem ukłonem y proszę
abym w nieodmienney zasta-
wała łasce WM[ci] M[ego] Pana
yako kochaiaca siostra
[kustosz:] e
[S. 33]
o zdrowiu JMci Pani Bratowey
oznaymuię ze zdrowa dobrze
ktora tu takze, i zabawiam
yako mogę, z ochotą zas by[...]
[...] tak JM Dobrodzieia yako y WM[ci]
M[ego] Pana tu cekamy, proszę
oznaymy yako prędko kancell[arz?]
bywać mamy, gdysz tu to zegło
się ze siem ma byc proszeny [...]
[S. 34]
kochany Dobrodzieiu oznaymu[ię]
yako prędko macye bo j[ego?] [...]
[...] serduszko nic tam niech ie słucha
tylko syn moy Stanisław zie-
dzie tam y będo grosze aby tam
ziechał, yezeli by zas niem
był pręndko to by musiał na
Wołyn yechać na kimikę [?] am[...]
wsty[d?]
[S. 35]
dotąd y powtore proszę oznay-
my z łaski swoy moy kocha-
ny Dobrodzieiu o tym sie mi-
e a mnie swoy choway łasce
do ktorey sie oddawszy zostaię
WM[ci] M[ego] Pana
Serca kochaiaca
siostra y uniżona
sługa
A Dolska
[Z lewej strony dopisek:]
JM Dobrodzieiu
nisko zanosi obia-
sniam wielmożnie pi-
saniem osobliwym bowiem
ze zabawny zawsze JM
Dobrodziey
[S. 36, adres:]
Jasnie Wielmożnemu Jmci Panu
Woiewodzie y Generałowi Ziem
Ruskich memu wielce M[s]ciw[e]mu Pa-
nu y Serdecznie Kochanemu
Bratu.
oddać
Reading notes
Letter from Anna Dolska to the Voivode of Ruthenia, Stanisław Jan Jabłonowski (referred to as brother). P. 36 is the address leaf with a wax seal under the paper.
Other letters in this unit
- Anna Dolska to Jan Jabłonowski regarding the Queen's favor and quarters
- Letter from Anna Dolska to Jan Jabłonowski inquiring about the convocation sejm
- Letter from Anna Dolska to Jan Stanisław Jabłonowski regarding a journey to the Queen
- Efforts regarding the marriage of the author's sister
- Letter from Anna Dolska to Jan Jabłonowski regarding the marriage of Mr. Stamirowski
- Anna Dolska to Stanisław Jan Jabłonowski regarding her sister's marriage and dowry
- Letter from Anna Dolska to Voivode Jan Stanisław Jabłonowski regarding Podleski
- Letter from Anna Dolska to Jan Jabłonowski recommending her sons and requesting a captive
- Letter from Anna Dolska to Jan Jabłonowski regarding the marriage of her servant to Miss Leśnikowska
- Inquiry about health and news of the addressee
- Letter from Anna Dolska to Stanisław Jan Jabłonowski regarding a wedding and her son's arrival
- Condolences on the death of a family member
- Thanks and a request regarding a surrendered lease
- Regiment and rumors about provincial universals
- Request for a doctor and news about health
- Waiting for news about health and announcement of a trip
- Fragment about a young lady and her fortune
- Postscript about a rumor concerning the Podkomorzanka
- Congratulations and the case of the Starosta of Żydaczów
- Denial of consent to the marriage of the podkomorzanka
- Trouble from one's own son and the marriage case
- Trouble from one's own blood and a request for care
- Quarrel with son, the Starosta case, and news of Staniszewski's death
- News regarding the sister
- Thanks for care and complaint about the son's behavior
- News from the country and a question about Chodorostaw
- Congratulations on the birth and announcement of departure