Unlocking the Mary Hamilton papers

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HAM/1/20/3

Letter from Francis Napier, 8th Lord Napier, to Mary Hamilton

Diplomatic Text


My Dear Madam,
      No one more sincerely
condoles with you than I do. I too well
know the sensations the loʃs of a kind and
indulgent Parent occasions not to sympathis[e]
with you in your distreʃs.
      I should conceive
myself unpardonable were I to neglect
any opportunity of renewing our former
freindship & acquaintance and to convince
you of the sincerity of my profeʃsions will
do Myself the pleasure of waiting upon you
at Breakfast tomorrow.
                             I am
                             My Dear Madam
                             Affectionately Yours
                                                         Napier.
Monday Evening
      7th Decbr. 1778

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Normalised Text


My Dear Madam,
      No one more sincerely
condoles with you than I do. I too well
know the sensations the loss of a kind and
indulgent Parent occasions not to sympathise
with you in your distress.
      I should conceive
myself unpardonable were I to neglect
any opportunity of renewing our former
friendship & acquaintance and to convince
you of the sincerity of my professions will
do Myself the pleasure of waiting upon you
at Breakfast tomorrow.
                             I am
                             My Dear Madam
                             Affectionately Yours
                                                         Napier.
Monday Evening
     

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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 Francis Napier, 8th Lord Napier, to Mary Hamilton

Shelfmark: HAM/1/20/3

Correspondence Details

Sender: Francis Scott Napier, 8th Lord

Place sent: unknown

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: unknown

Date sent: 7 December 1778

Letter Description

Summary: Letter from Francis Napier, 8th Lord Napier, to Mary Hamilton, offering his condolences on the death of Hamilton's mother. He wishes to renew their former friendship and will wait on her at breakfast the following morning.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 86 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 6 September 2021)

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: 3 December 2021

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