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HAM/1/20/86

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

Diplomatic Text


------ Green Street
Leicester fields ------------


My Dear Sister,
      Maria & I are much
flattered with your Con=
=gratulations
. We are just
returned to Town & dine at
Lady Clavering's. My Chariot
& Servant shall wait your
Commands about ½ past Seven
& Shall carry You home
again at Night. As to Ly
Stormont
s Note, I can only
say we regret she cannot
attend the Presentation & shall
not trouble her for her
Chair. I ever am
      Your Affect. friend
      & Brother
                             N——

this is wrote in great haste

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My Dear Sister,
      Maria & I are much
flattered with your Congratulations
. We are just
returned to Town & dine at
Lady Clavering's. My Chariot
& Servant shall wait your
Commands about ½ past Seven
& Shall carry You home
again at Night. As to Lady
Stormonts Note, I can only
say we regret she cannot
attend the Presentation & shall
not trouble her for her
Chair. I ever am
      Your Affectionate friend
      & Brother
                             Napier

this is written in great haste

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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/1/20/86

Correspondence Details

Sender: Francis Scott Napier, 8th Lord

Place sent: unknown

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: unknown

Date sent: 16 April 1784
when 16 April 1784 (precision: high)

Letter Description

Summary: Note from Francis Napier, 8th Lord Napier, to Mary Hamilton, thanking her for her congratulations on his marriage to Maria Clavering. [Maria Margaret Clavering (1756?-1821) was the daughter of Lieutenant-General Sir John Clavering and Lady Diana West.] Napier has just returned to town and writes that he will send his servant and coach to fetch her that evening.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 82 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: 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: Laura Peter, BA student, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) (submitted 30 August 2022)

Transliterator: Christine Wallis, editorial team (completed 10 November 2022)

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 December 2022

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