Diplomatic Text
My Dear Sister,
Read the inclosed
if You can. It was hastily copied
from a Paper of the Chancellor's
which he exhibited, as the Intelli=
=gence given in the French Papers
arrived to day. As I did not reach
home till past Six, I have
this moment dined, & am now
set in for the Evening, to read
the Papers in a Scotch Cause,
therefore, You must console
Yourself, the best way You
can, as I shall not see Mr. D.
& You this Evening, having
habited myself in my Night Gown.
Truly Your Affect. Brother
N——
Return the Paper
by the Bearer
April 1799
Mrs- Dickenson
7 Dover Street
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Normalised Text
My Dear Sister,
Read the enclosed
if You can. It was hastily copied
from a Paper of the Chancellor's
which he exhibited, as the Intelligence
given in the French Papers
arrived to day. As I did not reach
home till past Six, I have
this moment dined, & am now
set in for the Evening, to read
the Papers in a Scotch Cause,
therefore, You must console
Yourself, the best way You
can, as I shall not see Mr. Dickenson
& You this Evening, having
habited myself in my Night Gown.
Truly Your Affectionate Brother
Napier
Return the Paper
by the Bearer
Mrs- Dickenson
7 Dover Street
quotations, spellings, uncorrected forms, split words, abbreviations, formatting)
Notes
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/1/20/147
Correspondence Details
Sender: Francis Scott Napier, 8th Lord
Place sent: London
Addressee: Mary Hamilton
Place received: London
Date sent: April 1799
Letter Description
Summary: Note from Francis Napier, 8th Lord Napier, to Mary Hamilton. He asks
Hamilton to read the enclosed [not included in the archive] which he says
was quickly copied from a paper in the Chancellor's ‘which he exhibited at
the intelligence given in the French Papers arrived today’. Napier did not
get home until late and shall not see Hamilton and her husband that
night.
A note at the bottom of the sheet asks that the paper be returned to the
bearer.
Length: 1 sheet, 107 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 20 October 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: 4 March 2022