HAM/1/19/50
Letter from William Napier, 7th Lord Napier, to Mary Hamilton
Diplomatic Text
30th-
Buxton June 26th- 1773
Two lines I am ʃure will content My dearest
Mary when I aʃsure her that I am
now so recovered that I propose setting
off to morrow morning for Scotland
where she is ʃure that her Letters will
always find a kind reception at the
Abbey from me & that she shall have
a long one from that quarter ʃoon & I
expect a letter to night from my
last however I am impatient to hear
why you went in ʃuch a hurry to town
&c. &c. &c. but I must wait yr pleaʃure
to unriddle these Matters Adieu My
best wishes to Mrs Hamilton & had not
you been My dear ward you would have
had no note from me to night God
bliʃs you & believe me yrs unchangable
as yourʃelf
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Normalised Text
Buxton June 26th- 1773
Two lines I am sure will content My dearest
Mary when I assure her that I am
now so recovered that I propose setting
off to morrow morning for Scotland
where she is sure that her Letters will
always find a kind reception at the
Abbey from me & that she shall have
a long one from that quarter soon & I
expect a letter to night from my
last however I am impatient to hear
why you went in such a hurry to town
&c. &c. &c. but I must wait your pleasure
to unriddle these Matters Adieu My
best wishes to Mrs Hamilton & had not
you been My dear ward you would have
had no note from me to night God
bless you & believe me yours unchangeable
as yourself
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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/1/19/50
Correspondence Details
Sender: William Napier, 7th Lord
Place sent: Buxton
Addressee: Mary Hamilton
Place received: unknown
Date sent: 26 June 1773
Letter Description
Summary: Letter from William Napier, 7th Lord Napier, to Mary Hamilton, informing her that he has recovered and that he will leave Buxton for Scotland.
Dated at Buxton [Derbyshire].
Length: 1 sheet, 137 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 21 August 2020)
Cataloguer: Lisa Crawley, Archivist, The John Rylands Library
Cataloguer: John Hodgson, Head of Special Collections, John Rylands Research Institute and Library
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Revision date: 2 November 2021