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HAM/1/20/224

Letter from Francis Napier, 8th Lord Napier, to Louisa Dickenson (later Anson)

Diplomatic Text


      For the sake of Louisa Frances Mary
Dickenson, the Lord High Commiʃsioner
to the General Aʃsembly of the Church
(Kirk) of Scotland, will carefully preserve
the Tenpence Sterling, so punctually re=
turned to His Grace (to be). He begs, however,
to be informed how, & when, the Month
of April 1808, received the Privilege of
enumerating so many more Days
than any former Month of April
had been allowed to do, the Paper in
which the Tenpence were remitted
bearing Date the 37th. April in the Year
of our Lord 1808.
      The Triumvirate[1] arrived
safe in Edinburgh yesterday before
Dinner, & found all Well. “Love to all
                                                         “at Buzzard Hall.”
71, Queen Street
4th. May 1808.[2]





Sr Ed. Hamilton
38 Notingham Place[3]
      New Road
      Marybone[4]

High Street 88

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Notes


 1. Napier presumably refers to himself and the two footmen with whom he will be travelling home, as he informs Hamilton in HAM/1/20/222.
 2. The dateline is written to the left of the final line of the letter.
 3. The address ‘38 Nott[ingham] Pl[ace]’ reappears in the dateline of Sir Edward Hamilton's letter of commiseration on Louisa Hamilton's death in 1837 (HAM/1/9/97 p.3).
 4. This address does not seem to belong to Francis Napier's note: it is not in Napier's hand, its location in London is at odds with Napier's sending his love to ‘all at Buzzard Hall’, and there are no postage marks or closing devices (e.g. seals or wafers) visible. It is possible, given the annotation in Mary Hamilton's hand below, that these addresses are merely scribbles on the reverse of Napier's letter to Louisa Dickenson.

Normalised Text


      For the sake of Louisa Frances Mary
Dickenson, the Lord High Commissioner
to the General Assembly of the Church
(Kirk) of Scotland, will carefully preserve
the Tenpence Sterling, so punctually returned
 to His Grace (to be). He begs, however,
to be informed how, & when, the Month
of April 1808, received the Privilege of
enumerating so many more Days
than any former Month of April
had been allowed to do, the Paper in
which the Tenpence were remitted
bearing Date the 37th. April in the Year
of our Lord 1808.
      The Triumvirate arrived
safe in Edinburgh yesterday before
Dinner, & found all Well. “Love to all
                                                         “at Buzzard Hall.”
71, Queen Street
4th. May 1808.








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 1. Napier presumably refers to himself and the two footmen with whom he will be travelling home, as he informs Hamilton in HAM/1/20/222.
 2. The dateline is written to the left of the final line of the letter.
 3. The address ‘38 Nott[ingham] Pl[ace]’ reappears in the dateline of Sir Edward Hamilton's letter of commiseration on Louisa Hamilton's death in 1837 (HAM/1/9/97 p.3).
 4. This address does not seem to belong to Francis Napier's note: it is not in Napier's hand, its location in London is at odds with Napier's sending his love to ‘all at Buzzard Hall’, and there are no postage marks or closing devices (e.g. seals or wafers) visible. It is possible, given the annotation in Mary Hamilton's hand below, that these addresses are merely scribbles on the reverse of Napier's letter to Louisa Dickenson.

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 Louisa Dickenson (later Anson)

Shelfmark: HAM/1/20/224

Correspondence Details

Sender: Francis Scott Napier, 8th Lord

Place sent: Edinburgh

Addressee: Louisa Frances Mary (later Anson) Dickenson

Place received: Leighton Buzzard (certainty: medium)

Date sent: 4 May 1808

Letter Description

Summary: Letter from Francis Napier, 8th Lord Napier, to Louisa Dickenson, Mary Hamilton's daughter. He thanks her for the return of tenpence and asks to be informed 'how & when, the month of April 1808, received the Privilege of enumerating so many more Days than any former month of april had been allowed to do', as Dickenson's letter was dated 37 April 1808.
    Dated at Queen Street [Edinburgh].
   

Length: 1 sheet, 115 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 21 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: 29 July 2024

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