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HAM/1/20/147

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

Diplomatic Text


My Dear Sister,
      Read the inclosed
if You can. It was hastily copied
from a Paper of the Chancellor's
which he exhibited, as the Intelli=
=gence
given in the French Papers
arrived to day. As I did not reach
home till past Six, I have
this moment dined, & am now
set in for the Evening, to read
the Papers in a Scotch Cause,
therefore, You must console
Yourself, the best way You
can, as I shall not see Mr. D.
& You this Evening, having
habited myself in my Night Gown.
                             Truly Your Affect. Brother
                                                         N——
Return the Paper
by the Bearer
      April 1799



                             Mrs- Dickenson
                                                 7 Dover Street


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Normalised Text


My Dear Sister,
      Read the enclosed
if You can. It was hastily copied
from a Paper of the Chancellor's
which he exhibited, as the Intelligence
given in the French Papers
arrived to day. As I did not reach
home till past Six, I have
this moment dined, & am now
set in for the Evening, to read
the Papers in a Scotch Cause,
therefore, You must console
Yourself, the best way You
can, as I shall not see Mr. Dickenson
& You this Evening, having
habited myself in my Night Gown.
                             Truly Your Affectionate Brother
                                                         Napier
Return the Paper
by the Bearer
     



                             Mrs- Dickenson
                                            7 Dover Street


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 1. Seal, in red wax.

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/1/20/147

Correspondence Details

Sender: Francis Scott Napier, 8th Lord

Place sent: London

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: London

Date sent: April 1799

Letter Description

Summary: Note from Francis Napier, 8th Lord Napier, to Mary Hamilton. He asks Hamilton to read the enclosed [not included in the archive] which he says was quickly copied from a paper in the Chancellor's ‘which he exhibited at the intelligence given in the French Papers arrived today’. Napier did not get home until late and shall not see Hamilton and her husband that night.
    A note at the bottom of the sheet asks that the paper be returned to the bearer.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 107 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 October 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: 4 March 2022

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