HAM/1/19/39
Letter from William Napier, 7th Lord Napier, to Mary Hamilton
Diplomatic Text
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20th- London Aprl- 15th- 1773 20[2]
I have just time to tell My dearest
Mary that I was oblig'd to come here
as I have had the misfortune to lose a
very worthy, good, & kind Father a few days
ago. Please inform Mr Hope of it as I have
not time to write every body & My Father
was his Uncle I go in two days to Canterbury
where I shall expect to hear from you
& as you have franks directed for Col.-
Napier you had better use them as
they will come ʃafe & the next you get
may be properly derected Adieu my dearest
Ward believe me yours most Affctly-
Napier
Remember me to
Mrs Hamilton in the
kindest Manner[3]
red text is normalised and/or unformatted in other panel)
Normalised Text
London April 15th- 1773
I have just time to tell My dearest
Mary that I was obliged to come here
as I have had the misfortune to lose a
very worthy, good, & kind Father a few days
ago. Please inform Mr Hope of it as I have
not time to write every body & My Father
was his Uncle I go in two days to Canterbury
where I shall expect to hear from you
& as you have franks directed for Colonel
Napier you had better use them as
they will come safe & the next you get
may be properly directed Adieu my dearest
Ward believe me yours most Affectionately
Napier
Remember me to
Mrs Hamilton in the
kindest Manner
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 William Napier, 7th Lord Napier, to Mary Hamilton
Shelfmark: HAM/1/19/39
Correspondence Details
Sender: William Napier, 7th Lord
Place sent: London
Addressee: Mary Hamilton
Place received: unknown
Date sent: 15 April 1773
Letter Description
Summary: Letter from William Napier, 7th Lord Napier, to Mary Hamilton. He has just
time to inform Hamilton of the death of his father [Francis Napier
(c.1702-1773), 6th Lord Napier]. He asks her to inform John Hope of this as
his father was Hope's uncle. Napier notes that he leaves for Canterbury in a
couple of days' time.
Dated at London.
Length: 1 sheet, 122 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 18 December 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