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HAM/1/19/49

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

Diplomatic Text


                             29th
                             Buxton June 23d 1773

      I have just time to acquaint my dearest Mary
that I have been confin'd to my bed ever ʃincee
I wrote her last, but propose taking the
Air to morrow and next day & set off for the
Abbey on Sunday[1] so dont expect to hear from
me again till I have been in Scotland but ye
Doctor
says there is no danger in my going so
conʃidering this terrible place I shall not
stay a moment I can set off from it, you
are gone for London I hope its in yr way to
Margate as you dont say any reason for so sudden
------ jaunt remember me to Mrs Hamilton & believe
[m]e yrs most sincerely I am able for no more adieu


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Notes


 1. Of the three days intervening between Napier's dateline (a Wednesday) and his planned departure, only two are explicitly accounted for, but this possible discrepancy would not justify re-dating the letter.

Normalised Text


                            
                             Buxton June 23d 1773

      I have just time to acquaint my dearest Mary
that I have been confined to my bed ever since
I wrote her last, but propose taking the
Air to morrow and next day & set off for the
Abbey on Sunday so don't expect to hear from
me again till I have been in Scotland but the
Doctor says there is no danger in my going so
considering this terrible place I shall not
stay a moment I can set off from it, you
are gone for London I hope it's in your way to
Margate as you don't say any reason for so sudden
------ jaunt remember me to Mrs Hamilton & believe
me yours most sincerely I am able for no more adieu


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 1. Of the three days intervening between Napier's dateline (a Wednesday) and his planned departure, only two are explicitly accounted for, but this possible discrepancy would not justify re-dating the letter.

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/1/19/49

Correspondence Details

Sender: William Napier, 7th Lord

Place sent: Buxton

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: unknown

Date sent: 23 June 1773

Letter Description

Summary: Letter from William Napier, 7th Lord Napier, to Mary Hamilton. He informs her that he has been confined to his bed since he last wrote to her, but he intends to go out to 'take the air' the following day and to set off home on Sunday so that she should not expect to hear from him until he reaches Scotland. The doctor does not expect him to be in any danger in travelling 'considering this terrible place'.
    Dated at Buxton [Derbyshire].
   

Length: 1 sheet, 128 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 21 August 2020)

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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