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

Diplomatic Text


                             Brough, 25th. Janry-
                                                         1805



My Dear Sister,
      I am detained here
till a Road is cut through the Snow
on Stanmore,[1] which is at present
impaʃsable. Whether I shall get
off tomorrow or not, I cannot gueʃs,
but, as I only arrived here last Night,
I am not so unfortunate as some of
those, I found here, who have been
kept since Tuesday & Wednesday. The
Mail is obliged to be forwarded on
Horseback & will, I Hope, carry away
this Letter. I am to be at Stapleford
Hall, on my way to London, & pro=
posed calling on A. Cathcart, & at Leighton
House. I now despair of being able
to execute this plan & to be in Town
on Thursday. If, however, you are at
home, (for I have seen a Mrs- Dickenson
figuring away at the Birthday) write
to me, Post Office, Newport Pagnel, &
I will try what I can to see You, if
only for a Minute. Give my Love


& best wishes to Mr. Dickenson, Louisa,
&c. &c. &c. Ever Your Affecte- Brother
                             & sincere friend
                                                         Napier



Brough, Twenty Fifth Janry- 1805

      Mrs- Dickenson[2]
      Leighton House
           Leighton Buzzard
                             Beds
Napier.

[3]

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Notes


 1. Brough under Stanmore, near Kirby Stephen, Cumbria.
 2. Distance mark ‘BROUGH 258’ in brown ink. FREE frank in red ink, dated 28 January 1805.
 3. Seal, in red wax.

Normalised Text


                             Brough, 25th. January
                                                         1805



My Dear Sister,
      I am detained here
till a Road is cut through the Snow
on Stanmore, which is at present
impassable. Whether I shall get
off tomorrow or not, I cannot guess,
but, as I only arrived here last Night,
I am not so unfortunate as some of
those, I found here, who have been
kept since Tuesday & Wednesday. The
Mail is obliged to be forwarded on
Horseback & will, I Hope, carry away
this Letter. I am to be at Stapleford
Hall, on my way to London, & proposed
 calling on Archibald Cathcart, & at Leighton
House. I now despair of being able
to execute this plan & to be in Town
on Thursday. If, however, you are at
home, (for I have seen a Mrs- Dickenson
figuring away at the Birthday) write
to me, Post Office, Newport Pagnel, &
I will try what I can to see You, if
only for a Minute. Give my Love


& best wishes to Mr. Dickenson, Louisa,
&c. &c. &c. Ever Your Affectionate Brother
                             & sincere friend
                                                         Napier



Brough, Twenty Fifth January 1805

      Mrs- Dickenson
      Leighton House
           Leighton Buzzard
                             Bedfordshire
Napier.


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 1. Brough under Stanmore, near Kirby Stephen, Cumbria.
 2. Distance mark ‘BROUGH 258’ in brown ink. FREE frank in red ink, dated 28 January 1805.
 3. Seal, in red wax.

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/1/20/191

Correspondence Details

Sender: Francis Scott Napier, 8th Lord

Place sent: Brough

Addressee: Mary Hamilton

Place received: Leighton Buzzard

Date sent: 25 January 1805

Letter Description

Summary: Letter from Francis Napier, 8th Lord Napier, to Mary Hamilton. He reports that he is stuck in Brough due to the snow. He was on his way to London and now he cannot move until a road is cut through the snow. Post is being sent by horseback.
    Dated at Brough.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 195 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 3 February 2022)

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: 17 March 2022

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