Unlocking the Mary Hamilton papers

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HAM/1/20/70

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

Diplomatic Text


My Dear Sister,
      Mr. Fraser is not in
Town & his Servants say they have
not heard of his intention of letting
his house. I have seen two other
houses in Burlington Strt neither
of which will answer for You -- One
of them being to be lett upon a
repairing lease; the other furnished.
I have likewise seen an Excellent
house in Albemarle Street. Rent
£150. Adieu. My endeavours have
been unsucceʃsfull hitherto, but if
I should meet with anything likely
to suit You, I will make the
neceʃsary Enquiries.
                             Your Affect. Brother
                                                         N——
St. Albans Street
No. 29 -- Monday Morng-
16th Decbr. 1782

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Normalised Text


My Dear Sister,
      Mr. Fraser is not in
Town & his Servants say they have
not heard of his intention of letting
his house. I have seen two other
houses in Burlington Street neither
of which will answer for You -- One
of them being to be let on a
repairing lease; the other furnished.
I have likewise seen an Excellent
house in Albemarle Street. Rent
£150. Adieu. My endeavours have
been unsuccessful hitherto, but if
I should meet with anything likely
to suit You, I will make the
necessary Enquiries.
                             Your Affectionate Brother
                                                         Napier
St. Albans Street
No. 29 -- Monday Morning

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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/1/20/70

Correspondence Details

Sender: Francis Scott Napier, 8th Lord

Place sent: London

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: unknown

Date sent: 16 December 1782

Letter Description

Summary: Letter from Francis Napier, 8th Lord Napier, to Mary Hamilton, relating to Napier's looking for a suitable house for Hamilton to occupy once she leaves Court.
    Dated at St Albans Street.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 101 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 23 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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