Unlocking the Mary Hamilton papers

Single Letter

HAM/1/20/202

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

Diplomatic Text


                             71, Queen Street
                             5th. Decr- 1805



My Dear Sister,
      I have a Letter from
my Son, this day, dated Portsmouth.
He is well & happy. The Defence, engaged,
took, and secured the St. Ildefonso of 82
Guns, in the Action of the 21st. Octr-[1] Best
wishes to You & yours. Ever your
                             Affecte- Brother
                                                         Napier


                             Lord N—
                             Decbr. 1805

Hotel St. Etienne
      Bayonne

(hover over blue text or annotations for clarification;
red text is normalised and/or unformatted in other panel)


Notes


 1. That is, at the Battle of Trafalgar.

Normalised Text


                             71, Queen Street
                             5th. December 1805



My Dear Sister,
      I have a Letter from
my Son, this day, dated Portsmouth.
He is well & happy. The Defence, engaged,
took, and secured the St. Ildefonso of 82
Guns, in the Action of the 21st. October Best
wishes to You & yours. Ever your
                             Affectionate Brother
                                                         Napier


                            

(consult diplomatic text or XML for annotations, deletions, clarifications, persons,
quotations, spellings, uncorrected forms, split words, abbreviations, formatting)



 1. That is, at the Battle of Trafalgar.

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/1/20/202

Correspondence Details

Sender: Francis Scott Napier, 8th Lord

Place sent: Edinburgh

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: unknown

Date sent: 5 December 1805

Letter Description

Summary: Note from Francis Napier, 8th Lord Napier, to Mary Hamilton. He has received a letter from his son dated at Portsmouth. The Defence 'engaged, took and secured the San Ildefenso of 82 Guns, in the action of 21 Oct[ober]' [the Battle of Trafalgar].
    Dated at Queen Street [Edinburgh].
   

Length: 1 sheet, 55 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 12 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: 17 March 2022

Document Image (pdf)