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HAM/1/20/53

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

Diplomatic Text


                                                         Worcester 22nd. Septr-
                                                         1781.





      I hardly know how to begin
my letter -- The recollection of what
has past, places the folly of my conduct
in so glaring a point of view, that I
would gladly turn from it. When in Town
I called at your appartments & I must
confeʃs that for once in my Life I was
pleased at not finding You there -- and
yet I sould have wished to have convinced
my Dear Sister (if I may once more call you
so) how very seriously concerned I was,
for what I had wrote & how much I
despised myself for being so mean as
for a single moment to suffer myself
to beleive that your friendship for me
had diminished. I have a thousand times
accused myself of the greatest ingratitude,
& at this moment feel a remorse which
punishes me severely. You have said
if I ask pardon You may forget & forgive.
I earnestly long to receive that Pardon



which will once more permit me to subscribe
myself My Dear Miʃs Hamilton's
Affectionate Friend & Brother
                                                         N——

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Normalised Text


                                                         Worcester 22nd. September
                                                         1781.





      I hardly know how to begin
my letter -- The recollection of what
has passed, places the folly of my conduct
in so glaring a point of view, that I
would gladly turn from it. When in Town
I called at your apartments & I must
confess that for once in my Life I was
pleased at not finding You there -- and
yet I sould have wished to have convinced
my Dear Sister (if I may once more call you
so) how very seriously concerned I was,
for what I had written & how much I
despised myself for being so mean as
for a single moment to suffer myself
to believe that your friendship for me
had diminished. I have a thousand times
accused myself of the greatest ingratitude,
& at this moment feel a remorse which
punishes me severely. You have said
if I ask pardon You may forget & forgive.
I earnestly long to receive that Pardon



which will once more permit me to subscribe
myself My Dear Miss Hamilton's
Affectionate Friend & Brother
                                                         Napier

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Library References

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

Archive: Mary Hamilton Papers

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

Shelfmark: HAM/1/20/53

Correspondence Details

Sender: Francis Scott Napier, 8th Lord

Place sent: Worcester

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: unknown

Date sent: 22 September 1781

Letter Description

Summary: Letter from Francis Napier, 8th Lord Napier, to Mary Hamilton, apologising for his conduct.
    Dated at Worcester.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 181 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 21 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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