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HAM/1/19/44

Letter from William Napier, 7th Lord Napier, to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text

[1]
      25th

      Blackheath May 21st, 1773
I have just got yours My dearest Mary
& propose setting off from London on
Sunday ye 23d in the afternoon & being
wt you to dinner on ye Monday and
shall be happy to meet you on
the road riding but wont give
Mrs Hamilton the trouble of
coming a stage, as I am a very
early man & I'm not ʃure but
I may be wt you to breakfast
so adieu My dearest Girl
believe me yrs most affctly


                                                         Napier[2]


[3]
      To
      Miʃs Hamilton[4]
                                    near
                             Northampton
      Free
      Panmure

Walker[5]
[6]
[7]
[8]

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Notes


 1. An extract from this letter appears in Anson & Anson (1925: 24).
 2. Napier's style and form of signing is rather variable. This one, in addition to a line below, has a mark to the left and a line above.
 3. The address on this page is in the hand of the provider of the frank, William Maule, Lord Panmure, MP for Forfarshire.
 4. A stamp, reading ‘FREE’.
 5. This annotation is written vertically near the foot of the page. The name may be related to a rather later mention in HAM/2/15/3 p.64 (March 1785): ‘She also sent me a letter from Miſs Walker wth an account that Miſs Litchfield had been prevented writing by Illneſs’.
 6. A stamp, in black ink, reading ‘22 MA’, indicating the date, 22 May [1773].
 7. Remains of stamp, in black ink.
 8. A seal in black wax remains intact.

Normalised Text


     

      Blackheath May 21st, 1773
I have just got yours My dearest Mary
& propose setting off from London on
Sunday the 23d in the afternoon & being
with you to dinner on the Monday and
shall be happy to meet you on
the road riding but won't give
Mrs Hamilton the trouble of
coming a stage, as I am a very
early man & I'm not sure but
I may be with you to breakfast
so adieu My dearest Girl
believe me yours most affectionately


                                                         Napier



      To
      Miss Hamilton
                     near
                             Northampton
      Free
      Panmure




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 1. An extract from this letter appears in Anson & Anson (1925: 24).
 2. Napier's style and form of signing is rather variable. This one, in addition to a line below, has a mark to the left and a line above.
 3. The address on this page is in the hand of the provider of the frank, William Maule, Lord Panmure, MP for Forfarshire.
 4. A stamp, reading ‘FREE’.
 5. This annotation is written vertically near the foot of the page. The name may be related to a rather later mention in HAM/2/15/3 p.64 (March 1785): ‘She also sent me a letter from Miſs Walker wth an account that Miſs Litchfield had been prevented writing by Illneſs’.
 6. A stamp, in black ink, reading ‘22 MA’, indicating the date, 22 May [1773].
 7. Remains of stamp, in black ink.
 8. A seal in black wax remains intact.

Metadata

Library References

Repository: John Rylands Research Institute and Library, University of Manchester

Archive: Mary Hamilton Papers

Item title: Letter from William Napier, 7th Lord Napier, to Mary Hamilton

Shelfmark: HAM/1/19/44

Correspondence Details

Sender: William Napier, 7th Lord

Place sent: Blackheath

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: Northampton

Date sent: 21 May 1773

Letter Description

Summary: Letter from William Napier, 7th Lord Napier, to Mary Hamilton. He writes that he has just received her letter, that he proposes to set off from London on Sunday 23rd, and that he should be with her in time for dinner on the Monday.
    Dated at Blackheath [Surrey].
   

Length: 1 sheet, 93 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 20 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: 2 November 2021

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