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HAM/1/20/126

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

Diplomatic Text


                             Liverpool 16th. July
                                                         1794.



My Dear Sister,
      I shall be very happy
to see You & Yours here the first Week
in August. I shall probably remain a
fixture heretill the beginning of October,
when I wish to get home, for two
important reasons. The first, to carry
my Son to School, and the second, to
watch the Kittens while the Old
Cat is adding to the number.[1]
      I fell in yesterday with
a Company from Manchester, with
whom, I had half a Mind to fall
out. Furious Republicans. I hope, not
enrolled in the number of your
friends. A Mr. & Mrs- Phillips, a Mr. & Mrs-
Rawlinson & a Miʃs Elis. White. Adieu,
My Dear Sister, best affections to Mr. D. &
Louisa. Ever Yours very faithfully and
                             Sincerely
                                                         Napier


[2]
Ld. Napier
1794[3]

Mrs= Dickenson
      Birch Hall
                             Manchester[4]

[5]

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Notes


 1. Napier's son Charles was born 24 October 1794.
 2. Round postmark ‘LIVERPOOL’ in black ink.
 3. This annotation is written vertically in the left-hand margin.
 4. A large manuscript figure 4 is written across the address, denoting postage due.
 5. Remains of a seal, in red wax, divided by unfolding.

Normalised Text


                             Liverpool 16th. July
                                                         1794.



My Dear Sister,
      I shall be very happy
to see You & Yours here the first Week
in August. I shall probably remain a
fixture till the beginning of October,
when I wish to get home, for two
important reasons. The first, to carry
my Son to School, and the second, to
watch the Kittens while the Old
Cat is adding to the number.
      I fell in yesterday with
a Company from Manchester, with
whom, I had half a Mind to fall
out. Furious Republicans. I hope, not
enrolled in the number of your
friends. A Mr. & Mrs- Phillips, a Mr. & Mrs-
Rawlinson & a Miss Elizabeth White. Adieu,
My Dear Sister, best affections to Mr. Dickenson &
Louisa. Ever Yours very faithfully and
                             Sincerely
                                                         Napier





Mrs= Dickenson
      Birch Hall
                             Manchester

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 1. Napier's son Charles was born 24 October 1794.
 2. Round postmark ‘LIVERPOOL’ in black ink.
 3. This annotation is written vertically in the left-hand margin.
 4. A large manuscript figure 4 is written across the address, denoting postage due.
 5. Remains of a seal, in red wax, divided by unfolding.

Metadata

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/1/20/126

Correspondence Details

Sender: Francis Scott Napier, 8th Lord

Place sent: Liverpool

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: Rusholme, near Manchester

Date sent: 16 July 1794

Letter Description

Summary: Letter from Francis Napier, 8th Lord Napier, to Mary Hamilton. He is happy to have Hamilton and her family visit him in Liverpool and notes that he will probably be here until October. He also notes that he ran into some Manchester Company with 'whom, I had half a mind to fall out. Furious Republicans'.
    Dated at Liverpool.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 137 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 20 January 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: 20 January 2022

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