Unlocking the Mary Hamilton papers

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HAM/1/20/87

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

Diplomatic Text


Accept this present from my Spouse,
Presented with Ten Thousand Bows
Of complements at least a Score
Or two if still You wish for More
Beleive that what She meant to say
I nowTo You I now in verse convey
If Verse You hate then burn this Letter
Next time I write, I will write better --
                                                         Yours N——
Great Marlborough Street
Monday Morning
19th. April
      1784


                             Miʃs Hamilton
                                Clarges Street[1]

                                                         Napier[2]

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Notes


 1. Tear, and remains of a seal, in red wax.
 2. This annotation is written upside down.

Normalised Text


Accept this present from my Spouse,
Presented with Ten Thousand Bows
Of complements at least a Score
Or two if still You wish for More
Believe that what She meant to say
To You I now in verse convey
If Verse You hate then burn this Letter
Next time I write, I will write better --
                                                         Yours Napier
Great Marlborough Street
Monday Morning
19th. April
      1784


                             Miss Hamilton
                                Clarges Street

                                                        

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 1. Tear, and remains of a seal, in red wax.
 2. This annotation is written upside down.

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/1/20/87

Correspondence Details

Sender: Francis Scott Napier, 8th Lord

Place sent: London

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: London

Date sent: 19 April 1784

Letter Description

Summary: Note from Francis Napier, 8th Lord Napier, to Mary Hamilton, written in verse, asking her to accept the present that he has sent.
    Dated at Great Marlborough Street.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 69 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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