Diplomatic Text
------ Green Street
Leicester fields[1] ------------
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
Stormonts Note, I can only
say we regret she cannot
attend the Presentation & shall
not trouble her for her
Chair.[2] I ever am
Your Affect. friend
& Brother
N——
this is wrote in great haste
red text is normalised and/or unformatted in other panel)
Notes
1. Now Leicester Square. Green Street ran east from the southeast corner.
2. Lady Stormont had been due to present Napier's new wife at Court but had had to drop out because her family was going into mourning on the death of Lady Mansfield (see HAM/1/18/82). All she could offer the Napiers was the use of her ‘chair’.
Normalised Text
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
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/1/20/86
Correspondence Details
Sender: Francis Scott Napier, 8th Lord
Place sent: London (certainty: high)
Addressee: Mary Hamilton
Place received: London (certainty: high)
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
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Revision date: 13 July 2025