Diplomatic Text
[1]
Miʃs tells me she has been impertinent
& desires you to keep me in order, tell
her for answer that it is impoʃsible -- Your
Picture is finished & is now upon the Road
to you. I have desired the bearer of it Mr-
Leslie (Son to Lord Leven)[2] to deliver it to you in
person, if he does, be civil to him. You will
not find the likeneʃs a good one, but it is the
best I have & so you must e'en content yourself
and do as the Galloway Wife did Adieu --
N——
March 3d
1779
red text is normalised and/or unformatted in other panel)
Notes
1. The top of the sheet has been torn away and the remains of another line of writing are visible.
2. It is not clear who is being referred to, as Lord Leven had four surviving sons at this date: Alexander (1749-1820, 7th Lord Leven), David (1755-1838), John (1759-1824) and George (1766-1812). George is perhaps too young to be the Mr Leslie mentioned here.
Normalised Text
Miss tells me she has been impertinent
& desires you to keep me in order, tell
her for answer that it is impossible -- Your
Picture is finished & is upon the Road
to you. I have desired the bearer of it Mr-
Leslie (Son to Lord Leven) to deliver it to you in
person, if he does, be civil to him. You will
not find the likeness a good one, but it is the
best I have & so you must even content yourself
and do as the Galloway Wife did Adieu --
Napier
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 Francis Napier, 8th Lord Napier, to Mary Hamilton
Shelfmark: HAM/1/20/14
Correspondence Details
Sender: Francis Scott Napier, 8th Lord
Place sent: unknown
Addressee: Mary Hamilton
Place received: unknown
Date sent: 3 March 1779
Letter Description
Summary: Note from Francis Napier, 8th Lord Napier, to Mary Hamilton. He writes that
her picture [of Napier's father] is now finished and is being carried to her
by a Mr Leslie. He asks that she be civil to him and that the likeness of
the picture is not very good but it is all he has and therefore she ‘must
content’ herself with it.
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: 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
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Revision date: 3 December 2021