HAM/1/20/182
Letter from Francis Napier, 8th Lord Napier, to Mary Hamilton
Diplomatic Text
38, St. James's Street
6th- April 1803.
My Dear Sister,
Immediately on re=
ceiving your Letter, I sent my Man
with that to Lady Hamilton. He
has this moment returned with
the melancholy accounts of Sir
William's death. The event hap=
pened at ¼ past Ten, this Morning.
As I know you loved Your Uncle,
I regret the feelings You will
experience on this occasion.
With my Love & best wishes
to Mr. Dickenson, Louisa &c. I re=
main ever, My Dear Sister,
Your Affecte- Brother
Napier
I trust this fine
weather will remove
Louisa's Cough. Every
Mortal hasere almost
haves suffered from
the Influenza.
London, Sixth April 1803
Mrs- Dickenson[1]
Leighton House
Leighton Buzzard
Beds
Napier.
[2]
red text is normalised and/or unformatted in other panel)
Normalised Text
38, St. James's Street
6th- April 1803.
My Dear Sister,
Immediately on receiving
your Letter, I sent my Man
with that to Lady Hamilton. He
has this moment returned with
the melancholy accounts of Sir
William's death. The event happened
at ¼ past Ten, this Morning.
As I know you loved Your Uncle,
I regret the feelings You will
experience on this occasion.
With my Love & best wishes
to Mr. Dickenson, Louisa &c. I remain
ever, My Dear Sister,
Your Affectionate Brother
Napier
I trust this fine
weather will remove
Louisa's Cough. Every
Mortal here almost
has suffered from
the Influenza.
London, Sixth April 1803
Mrs- Dickenson
Leighton House
Leighton Buzzard
Bedfordshire
Napier.
quotations, spellings, uncorrected forms, split words, abbreviations, formatting)
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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/1/20/182
Correspondence Details
Sender: Francis Scott Napier, 8th Lord
Place sent: London
Addressee: Mary Hamilton
Place received: Leighton Buzzard
Date sent: 6 April 1803
Letter Description
Summary: Letter from Francis Napier, 8th Lord Napier, to Mary Hamilton, announcing
the death of Sir William Hamilton. Napier sent Hamilton's letter to Lady
Hamilton on her behalf via his servant. The servant has just returned with
an account of Sir William's death. He died at a quarter past ten this
morning. As Napier knows that Hamilton loved her uncle he ‘regrets the
feelings you will experience’.
Dated at St James's Street [London].
Length: 1 sheet, 114 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 28 January 2022)
Cataloguer: Lisa Crawley, Archivist, The John Rylands Library
Cataloguer: John Hodgson, Head of Special Collections, John Rylands Research Institute and Library
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Revision date: 17 March 2022