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HAM/1/20/201

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

Diplomatic Text


                             71, Queen Street
                               26th. Novr. 1805



My Dear Sister,
      In reply to your Note,
I have the pleasure of telling You that
my Daughter walked out, & basked in
the Sun for ten Minutes, this forenoon,
which I trust will refresh her very
much. Maria & I approve of that mode
of airing Invalids, to sending them out
in a Carriage, & always practise it.
      No accounts from my Son
William yet. But, thank God, the Gazette
has relieved my Anxiety on his account,
as it appears from the Returns that no
Officer, or Midshipman was killed, or wound=
ed, on board The Defence. Her loʃs was 7
Seamen & Marines killed, and 29 ditto
wounded. Give my Love to Your Hub,
as You call him, Louisa, my Countrywo-
man &c. Ever Your affectionate & faithful
Friend & Brother
                             Napier

Lady M. Sinclairs Friends
here say the report of her
Marriage to Mr. Palmer is
true.



Edinburgh, Twenty Sixth November 1805

      Mrs- Dickenson[1]
         Leighton House
             Leighton Buzzard
                             Beds
Napier.

[2]

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Notes


 1. FREE frank in red ink, dated 29 November 1805. Round postmark in red ink, dated 26 November.
 2. Seal, in red wax.

Normalised Text


                             71, Queen Street
                               26th. November 1805



My Dear Sister,
      In reply to your Note,
I have the pleasure of telling You that
my Daughter walked out, & basked in
the Sun for ten Minutes, this forenoon,
which I trust will refresh her very
much. Maria & I approve of that mode
of airing Invalids, to sending them out
in a Carriage, & always practise it.
      No accounts from my Son
William yet. But, thank God, the Gazette
has relieved my Anxiety on his account,
as it appears from the Returns that no
Officer, or Midshipman was killed, or wounded
, on board The Defence. Her loss was 7
Seamen & Marines killed, and 29 ditto
wounded. Give my Love to Your Hub,
as You call him, Louisa, my Countrywoman
 &c. Ever Your affectionate & faithful
Friend & Brother
                             Napier

Lady Madelina Sinclairs Friends
here say the report of her
Marriage to Mr. Palmer is
true.



Edinburgh, Twenty Sixth November 1805

      Mrs- Dickenson
         Leighton House
             Leighton Buzzard
                             Bedfordshire
Napier.

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 1. FREE frank in red ink, dated 29 November 1805. Round postmark in red ink, dated 26 November.
 2. Seal, in red wax.

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/1/20/201

Correspondence Details

Sender: Francis Scott Napier, 8th Lord

Place sent: Edinburgh

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: Leighton Buzzard

Date sent: 26 November 1805

Letter Description

Summary: Letter from Francis Napier, 8th Lord Napier, to Mary Hamilton, regarding his son William and the Battle of Trafalgar. He has still had no word from his son William, but thanks God that the Gazette has reported in the returns that no officer or midshipman was killed or wounded on board the Defence . ‘Her loss was 7 seamen & marines Killed, and 29 ditto wounded’.
    Dated at Queen Street [Edinburgh].
   

Length: 1 sheet, 167 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 8 February 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: 17 March 2022

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