HAM/1/19/17/2
Note from William Napier (later 7th Lord Napier) to Mary Hamilton
Diplomatic Text
[1]
I think I have anʃwered yours as
fully as poʃsible so pray my dear Girl
write me soon, nay very soon, Miʃs Hamilton
will furnish you wt a Subject so no excuse
will ever be taken adieu believe me
yr most faithfull & sincere friend
I have wrote yr name on yr book in ye new
fashioned place & indeed ye best place where
poʃsible to do it, once more my dearest Girl
adieu
[2]
2d-
Miʃs Hamilton[3]
Free
Ja: Dundas
Northampton
red text is normalised and/or unformatted in other panel)
Notes
1. Originally catalogued as part of a single letter as HAM/1/19/17. This is presumably the ‘scrap of a letter’ referred to in HAM/1/19/18, to be dated between HAM/1/19/17/1 on 2 August and Napier's receipt of a letter from Hamilton on 20 August 1772, as noted in HAM/1/19/18. Hamilton has given HAM/1/19/17/2 the same sequence number as HAM/1/19/18.
2. The note has been addressed on Napier's behalf by James Dundas, who as an MP received free postage. Dundas was MP for Linlithgowshire (West Lothian) from 27 March 1770 until late 1774.
3. Remains of a stamp reading ‘FREE’.
Normalised Text
I think I have answered yours as
fully as possible so pray my dear Girl
write me soon, nay very soon, Miss Hamilton
will furnish you with a Subject so no excuse
will ever be taken adieu believe me
your most faithful & sincere friend
I have written your name on your book in the new
fashioned place & indeed the best place where
possible to do it, once more my dearest Girl
adieu
Miss Hamilton
Free
James Dundas
Northampton
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: Note from William Napier (later 7th Lord Napier) to Mary Hamilton
Shelfmark: HAM/1/19/17/2
Correspondence Details
Sender: William Napier, 7th Lord
Place sent: unknown
Addressee: Mary Hamilton
Place received: Northampton
Date sent: between 2 and 20 August 1772
notBefore 2 August 1772 (precision: medium)
notAfter 20 August 1772 (precision: medium)
Letter Description
Summary: Note from William Napier to Mary Hamilton, which is presumably the ‘scrap of a letter’ referred to in HAM/1/19/18.
This item was originally catalogued together with HAM/1/19/17/1 as HAM/1/19/17.
Length: 1 sheet, 80 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 5 January 2021)
Cataloguer: Lisa Crawley, Archivist, The John Rylands Library
Cataloguer: John Hodgson, Head of Special Collections, John Rylands Research Institute and Library
Copyright: Transcriptions, notes and TEI/XML © the editors
Revision date: 28 April 2023