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HAM/1/19/43

Letter from William Napier, 7th Lord Napier, to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text


      24th-
                             London May 20th- 1773

I expect to be with you My dear Ward
on the 24th or 25th instant at furthest so
if you get no other letter you may sup-
pose me with you on Monday or Tuesday
when I hope to find you & Mrs Hamilton
well so as I am just going to dinner
you'll excuse me ʃaying I am My dear
Mary's most Affctly-      Napier

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Normalised Text


     
                             London May 20th- 1773

I expect to be with you My dear Ward
on the 24th or 25th instant at furthest so
if you get no other letter you may suppose
 me with you on Monday or Tuesday
when I hope to find you & Mrs Hamilton
well so as I am just going to dinner
you'll excuse me saying I am My dear
Mary's most Affectionately      Napier

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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/1/19/43

Correspondence Details

Sender: William Napier, 7th Lord

Place sent: London

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: Northampton (certainty: medium)

Date sent: 20 May 1773

Letter Description

Summary: Letter from William Napier, 7th Lord Napier, to Mary Hamilton. He expects to be with Hamilton by the 24th or 25th and he hopes to find her and her mother well.
    Dated at London.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 68 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 1 September 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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