HAM/1/20/167
Letter from Francis Napier, 8th Lord Napier, to Mary Hamilton
Diplomatic Text
4, Suffolk Street
Charing Croʃs
11th. March 1802.
My Dear Sister,
I read as much of
your Letter to Lady Lovett as concerned
Louisa, and rejoiced at it. As for the
rest of the Clishmaclaver,[1] I could not
be bothered with it. Having generously
bestowed a Wafer & some Spittle upon
the despatch, it was consigned, according
to Order, to the twopenny Post.
There will be no War.
The King looks Cool, and
Well.
I am doing nothing; but
purpose going to sleep immediately,
when I trust my Dreams will not
be disturbed with the horrid Idea,
of hearing the Clack, of your Tongue.
Love to all with You. Ever Your
faithful & affectionate Brother
Napier
London, Twelfth March 1802
Mrs. Dickenson[2]
Post Office
Northampton
Napier.
[3]
red text is normalised and/or unformatted in other panel)
Normalised Text
4, Suffolk Street
Charing Cross
11th. March 1802.
My Dear Sister,
I read as much of
your Letter to Lady Lovett as concerned
Louisa, and rejoiced at it. As for the
rest of the Clishmaclaver, I could not
be bothered with it. Having generously
bestowed a Wafer & some Spittle upon
the despatch, it was consigned, according
to Order, to the twopenny Post.
There will be no War.
The King looks Cool, and
Well.
I am doing nothing; but
purpose going to sleep immediately,
when I trust my Dreams will not
be disturbed with the horrid Idea,
of hearing the Clack, of your Tongue.
Love to all with You. Ever Your
faithful & affectionate Brother
Napier
London, Twelfth March 1802
Mrs. Dickenson
Post Office
Northampton
Napier.
quotations, spellings, uncorrected forms, split words, abbreviations, formatting)
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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/1/20/167
Correspondence Details
Sender: Francis Scott Napier, 8th Lord
Place sent: London
Addressee: Mary Hamilton
Place received: Northampton
Date sent: 12 March 1802
Letter Description
Summary: Letter from Francis Napier, 8th Lord Napier, to Mary Hamilton, briefly
responding to Hamilton's last letter to him.
Dated at Suffolk Street, Charing Cross.
Length: 1 sheet, 126 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 26 January 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: 17 March 2022