911 - Martin Madan to Judith Madan, 29 December 1724
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matchless Love as thine? notwithstanding thou’st
in the Center of Pleasures thou canst sacrifice
thy Time in thinking of me, Oh! Judy: how happy
am I to have {^gain’d} admission into a Heart thats dearer
to me, than a moments Life to a dying Sinner?
A Heart thats all sincerity, Love, and Constancy, thou
pattern of Virtues, thou Joy of my Soul, I’d give a thousand
worlds cou’d I but find words strong enough to express
my Passion for you – Me thought I found a secret
pleasure in my self last Saturday night, I coud not
find out the reason ‘till I recd yr last letter wch inform’d
me of yr being diverted at the Opera, so strong is sym=
=pathy, Couds’t thou be pleas’d & I not feel my very soul
transported, impossible – my darling Treasure
adieu and believe me to be wt I’ve told thee in our
softest Hours of
M: Madan
Ethrope Tuesday Dec: 29: 1724
[change of orientation]
Make my Compliments to Mrs Battle if wth you
matchless Love as thine? notwithstanding thou’st
in the Centre of Pleasures thou canst sacrifice
thy Time in thinking of me, Oh! Judy: how happy
am I to have {^gained} admission into a Heart that's dearer
to me, than a moments Life to a dying Sinner?
A Heart that's all sincerity, Love, and Constancy, thou
pattern of Virtues, thou Joy of my Soul, I’d give a thousand
worlds could I but find words strong enough to express
my Passion for you – Me thought I found a secret
pleasure in my self last Saturday night, I could not
find out the reason ‘till I recd yr last letter wch informed
me of yr being diverted at the Opera, so strong is sym=
=pathy, Couds’t thou be pleased & I not feel my very soul
transported, impossible – my darling Treasure
adieu and believe me to be wt I’ve told thee in our
softest Hours of
M: Madan
Ethrope Tuesday Dec: 29: 1724
[change of orientation]
Make my Compliments to Mrs Battle if wth you
Martin Madan to Judith Madan, 29 December 1724
Martin muses on the nature of their love and is endlessly happy that she has admitted him into her heart. He is delighted that she sets aside time to think of him, and describes how her heart is full of virtues and good characteristics. He felt an unexplained feeling of happiness on Saturday, and having received her most recent letter, realises that this coincided exactly with the time that Judith was enjoying herself at the opera. Could it be, he wonders, that their souls are so linked that they experience the same emotions even when separated?
Madan Family
Eng Letter C.284 f.64
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
1724
12
29
Ethorpe, Buckinghamshire [England]
England
primary author
thinking
separation
- feeling
- happy
- love (romantic)
- pleasure
- self
- soul
marriage
primary addressee
heart
- theatre-going
- thinking
separation
- happy
- love (romantic)
- pleasure
- disposition
- thought
- virtuous
marriage
To Cite this Letter
Martin Madan to Judith Madan, 29 December 1724, 29121724: Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, Madan Family, Eng Letter C.284 f.64
To Cite this Edition
Material Identities, Social Bodies: Embodiment in British Letters c.1680-1820. Compiled by: Karen Harvey, Helen Esfandiary, Sarah Fox, Emily Vine, University of Birmingham. Project funded by the Leverhulme Trust (2021-2025, Ref. RPG-2020-163), https://socialbodies.bham.ac.uk.