Unlocking the Mary Hamilton papers

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HAM/1/20/58

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

Diplomatic Text


                             No. 10. King's Street
                                                         St. James's.
                                   Wednesday afternoon.
                                                         27th. Feby. 1782.


My Dear Sister,
      The inclosed Letter
which I received last Sunday, brought
me immediately to Town. I send it you
to read as it is in the true Office Stile.
If you can contrive to get up tomorrow
by Ten O'Clock, I propose breakfasting
with You -- I remain ever
                             Your's &c &c &c
                                                         N——

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Normalised Text


                             No. 10. King's Street
                                                         St. James's.
                                   Wednesday afternoon.
                                                        


My Dear Sister,
      The enclosed Letter
which I received last Sunday, brought
me immediately to Town. I send it you
to read as it is in the true Office Style.
If you can contrive to get up tomorrow
by Ten O'Clock, I propose breakfasting
with You -- I remain ever
                             Your's &c &c &c
                                                         Napier

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Metadata

Library References

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

Archive: Mary Hamilton Papers

Item title: Note from Francis Napier, 8th Lord Napier, to Mary Hamilton

Shelfmark: HAM/1/20/58

Correspondence Details

Sender: Francis Scott Napier, 8th Lord

Place sent: London

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: London

Date sent: 27 February 1782

Letter Description

Summary: Note from Francis Napier, 8th Lord Napier, to Mary Hamilton, sending her a letter which he received [not included in the archive]. He writes to propose breakfasting with Hamilton the following morning.
    Dated at St James's [Street, London].
   

Length: 1 sheet, 62 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 21 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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