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HAM/1/19/9

Letter from Mary Anne Napier to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text


                                                         Abbey August 11th 1770




      Though my Dear Miʃs Hamilton ceases to
Answer my Letters & denies me the pleasure of
Hearing how she her Pappa & Mamma do: yet
(in case of miscarriage of yr Letters) I write this
to Notiffie to you & them that Lady Cathcart
was brought to bed of a Daughter on the eight
of July & that they were both in a good way &
all the rest of the familly are well --
      Mr Napier has been all the Summer at
Litchfield with the Regt: I expect him home
in Octr: yr Cousins are all much yours --
they join me in best compts to you Mr & Mrs
Hamilton
whose kindneʃs & Politeneʃs can never
be forgot by Dear Madam
                             Your Affect Cousin
                             & most Humble Servant
                                                         M A Napier
Direct to me at
The Abbey Edinburgh[1]

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Notes


 1. The postscript appears to the left of the signature. Napier writes a doubly-curved line to separate them.

Normalised Text


                                                         Abbey August 11th 1770




      Though my Dear Miss Hamilton ceases to
Answer my Letters & denies me the pleasure of
Hearing how she her Pappa & Mamma do: yet
(in case of miscarriage of your Letters) I write this
to Notify to you & them that Lady Cathcart
was brought to bed of a Daughter on the eight
of July & that they were both in a good way &
all the rest of the family are well --
      Mr Napier has been all the Summer at
Litchfield with the Regiment I expect him home
in October your Cousins are all much yours --
they join me in best compliments to you Mr & Mrs
Hamilton whose kindness & Politeness can never
be forgotten by Dear Madam
                             Your Affectionate Cousin
                             & most Humble Servant
                                                         Mary Anne Napier
Direct to me at
The Abbey Edinburgh

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 1. The postscript appears to the left of the signature. Napier writes a doubly-curved line to separate them.

Metadata

Library References

Repository: John Rylands Research Institute and Library, University of Manchester

Archive: Mary Hamilton Papers

Item title: Letter from Mary Anne Napier to Mary Hamilton

Shelfmark: HAM/1/19/9

Correspondence Details

Sender: Lady Mary Anne Napier (née Cathcart)

Place sent: Edinburgh

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: Northampton (certainty: low)

Date sent: 11 August 1770

Letter Description

Summary: Letter from Mary Anne Napier [later Lady Napier] to Mary Hamilton. She says that although Hamilton has stopped answering her letters she will still write to inform her of the birth of a daughter to her relation, Lady Cathcart.
    Dated at Abbey [Edinburgh].
   

Length: 1 sheet, 142 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: Tino Oudesluijs, editorial team (completed 24 August 2020)

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: 2 November 2021

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