Unlocking the Mary Hamilton papers

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HAM/1/20/7

Note from Francis Napier, 8th Lord Napier, to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text


      Long life & many happy
Years to you Miʃs. The Cane I received,
& shall preserve it carefully. How could
you imagine I did not intend going to
Court to day? I think you're very Saucy.
I not only go, but go in all my Glory. This
Eveng- I return to Ly- Napier's -- Another
Matrimonial Scheme on the Tapis.[1]
£70,000 & a Park within 8 miles of London.
                                                         Adieu Yours &c
                                                         N——
1 Janry 1779,

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Notes


 1. Lit. ‘on the tablecloth, under discussion or consideration’ (from French sur le tapis (OED s.v. tapis n. 1b. Accessed 07-09-2021).

Normalised Text


      Long life & many happy
Years to you Miss. The Cane I received,
& shall preserve it carefully. How could
you imagine I did not intend going to
Court to day? I think you're very Saucy.
I not only go, but go in all my Glory. This
Evening I return to Lady Napier's -- Another
Matrimonial Scheme on the Tapis.
£70,000 & a Park within 8 miles of London.
                                                         Adieu Yours &c
                                                         Napier
1 January 1779,

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 1. Lit. ‘on the tablecloth, under discussion or consideration’ (from French sur le tapis (OED s.v. tapis n. 1b. Accessed 07-09-2021).

Metadata

Library References

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

Archive: Mary Hamilton Papers

Item title: Note from Francis Napier, 8th Lord Napier, to Mary Hamilton

Shelfmark: HAM/1/20/7

Correspondence Details

Sender: Francis Scott Napier, 8th Lord

Place sent: London (certainty: medium)

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: unknown

Date sent: 1 January 1779

Letter Description

Summary: Note from Francis Napier, 8th Lord Napier, to Mary Hamilton. He wishes Hamilton ‘many happy years’ and asks how could she imagine that he would not come to Court today. He describes her as ‘very saucy’ as he not only goes but does so ‘in all my glory’. He writes that he now returns to Lady Napier and another ‘matrimonial scheme [...] £70,000 & a Park within 8 miles of London'.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 75 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: Christine Wallis, editorial team (completed 7 September 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: 3 December 2021

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