Diplomatic Text
Abbey August 11th 1770
Though my Dear Miʃs Hamilton ceases to
Answer my Letters & denies me the pleasure of
Hearing how she her Pappa & Mamma do: yet
(in case of miscarriage of yr Letters) I write this
to Notiffie to you & them that Lady Cathcart
was brought to bed of a Daughter on the eight
of July & that they were both in a good way &
all the rest of the familly are well --
Mr Napier has been all the Summer at
Litchfield with the Regt: I expect him home
in Octr: yr Cousins are all much yours --
they join me in best compts to you Mr & Mrs
Hamilton whose kindneʃs & Politeneʃs can never
be forgot by Dear Madam
Your Affect Cousin
& most Humble Servant
M A Napier
Direct to me at
The Abbey Edinburgh[1]
red text is normalised and/or unformatted in other panel)
Notes
1. The postscript appears to the left of the signature. Napier writes a doubly-curved line to separate them.
Normalised Text
Abbey August 11th 1770
Though my Dear Miss Hamilton ceases to
Answer my Letters & denies me the pleasure of
Hearing how she her Pappa & Mamma do: yet
(in case of miscarriage of your Letters) I write this
to Notify to you & them that Lady Cathcart
was brought to bed of a Daughter on the eight
of July & that they were both in a good way &
all the rest of the family are well --
Mr Napier has been all the Summer at
Litchfield with the Regiment I expect him home
in October your Cousins are all much yours --
they join me in best compliments to you Mr & Mrs
Hamilton whose kindness & Politeness can never
be forgotten by Dear Madam
Your Affectionate Cousin
& most Humble Servant
Mary Anne Napier
Direct to me at
The Abbey Edinburgh
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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 Mary Anne Napier to Mary Hamilton
Shelfmark: HAM/1/19/9
Correspondence Details
Sender: Lady Mary Anne Napier (née Cathcart)
Place sent: Edinburgh
Addressee: Mary Hamilton
Place received: Northampton (certainty: low)
Date sent: 11 August 1770
Letter Description
Summary: Letter from Mary Anne Napier [later Lady Napier] to Mary Hamilton. She says that although Hamilton has stopped answering her letters she will still write to inform her of the birth of a daughter to her relation, Lady Cathcart.
Dated at Abbey [Edinburgh].
Length: 1 sheet, 142 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: Tino Oudesluijs, editorial team (completed 24 August 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