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HAM/1/19/50

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

Diplomatic Text


                             30th-
                                                         Buxton June 26th- 1773

Two lines I am ʃure will content My dearest
Mary when I aʃsure her that I am
now so recovered that I propose setting
off to morrow morning for Scotland
where she is ʃure that her Letters will
always find a kind reception at the
Abbey from me & that she shall have
a long one from that quarter ʃoon & I
expect a letter to night from my
last however I am impatient to hear
why you went in ʃuch a hurry to town
&c. &c. &c. but I must wait yr pleaʃure
to unriddle these Matters Adieu My
best wishes to Mrs Hamilton & had not
you been My dear ward you would have
had no note from me to night God
bliʃs you & believe me yrs unchangable
as yourʃelf


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Normalised Text


                            
                                                         Buxton June 26th- 1773

Two lines I am sure will content My dearest
Mary when I assure her that I am
now so recovered that I propose setting
off to morrow morning for Scotland
where she is sure that her Letters will
always find a kind reception at the
Abbey from me & that she shall have
a long one from that quarter soon & I
expect a letter to night from my
last however I am impatient to hear
why you went in such a hurry to town
&c. &c. &c. but I must wait your pleasure
to unriddle these Matters Adieu My
best wishes to Mrs Hamilton & had not
you been My dear ward you would have
had no note from me to night God
bless you & believe me yours unchangeable
as yourself


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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 William Napier, 7th Lord Napier, to Mary Hamilton

Shelfmark: HAM/1/19/50

Correspondence Details

Sender: William Napier, 7th Lord

Place sent: Buxton

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: unknown

Date sent: 26 June 1773

Letter Description

Summary: Letter from William Napier, 7th Lord Napier, to Mary Hamilton, informing her that he has recovered and that he will leave Buxton for Scotland.
    Dated at Buxton [Derbyshire].
   

Length: 1 sheet, 137 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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