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Mary Hamilton Papers
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HAM_1_19_61.pdf
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HAM/1/19/61
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Series Title:
Correspondence from William 7th Lord Napier
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Correspondence from William 7th Lord Napier
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Letter from William 7th Lord Napier to Mary Hamilton
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Napier, William, 7th Lord Napier, 1730–1775 Napier, 1730–1775
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Date Created:
1774-03-09
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Napier writes that he has seen Mr Brown [spelt Browne in earlier letters. He looks after Hamilton’s business interests in Scotland], and that he ‘scolded him not a little but he has been so busy on election matters & indeed so has all men of business in Scotland that we who have no business that way can get not one word of them’. Nevertheless, Brown has promised him that he will write to Hamilton that week and satisfy all her demands. Napier hopes that by the time that Hamilton receives this letter that she will be preparing for her visit to London ‘where reigns nonsense, noise, hurry & impertinence in absolute authority & without the least controle (sic) as long as money holds out’. He wishes that she was with him and his family as he is sure that she would be in her element ‘only think of being surrounded with about ten thousand volumes of Books, sorting them & putting them in order with a bookbinder getting some of them to bind’. Napier writes that this is how he has been employed for over a week and it will carry on so for much longer. He asks Hamilton for news of Northampton and of what has become of John Hope and if he is still with them as he has heard nothing about him in Scotland. He has no news for Hamilton as she knows no one in Edinburgh although in general the news is of ‘misfortunes, divorces, Love adventures, marriages, disappointments, Balls, Plays, concerts, routs, and assembleys as in other places in this good Island of Great Britain’. He has not attended any since he saw Hamilton last excepting a school ball where he went to see his children dance. Dated at Edinburgh.
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Napier writes that he has seen Mr Brown [spelt Browne in earlier letters. He looks after Hamilton’s business interests in Scotland], and that he ‘scolded him not a little but he has been so busy on election matters & indeed so has all men of business in Scotland that we who have no business that way can get not one word of them’. Nevertheless, Brown has promised him that he will write to Hamilton that week and satisfy all her demands. Napier hopes that by the time that Hamilton receives this letter that she will be preparing for her visit to London ‘where reigns nonsense, noise, hurry & impertinence in absolute authority & without the least controle (sic) as long as money holds out’. He wishes that she was with him and his family as he is sure that she would be in her element ‘only think of being surrounded with about ten thousand volumes of Books, sorting them & putting them in order with a bookbinder getting some of them to bind’. Napier writes that this is how he has been employed for over a week and it will carry on so for much longer. He asks Hamilton for news of Northampton and of what has become of John Hope and if he is still with them as he has heard nothing about him in Scotland. He has no news for Hamilton as she knows no one in Edinburgh although in general the news is of ‘misfortunes, divorces, Love adventures, marriages, disappointments, Balls, Plays, concerts, routs, and assembleys as in other places in this good Island of Great Britain’. He has not attended any since he saw Hamilton last excepting a school ball where he went to see his children dance. Dated at Edinburgh.
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Subject:
Great Britain--Social life and customs
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Great Britain--Social life and customs
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Letters
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Archives
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Creation Site:
Scotland: Edinburgh
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Time Period Covered:
18th Century CE
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18th Century CE
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Places Covered:
England: Northamptonshire: Northampton
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England: Northamptonshire: Northampton
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People Covered:
Hamilton, Mary, 1756-1816
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Hamilton, Mary, 1756-1816
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Current Repository:
The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
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The University of Manchester Library
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Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd):
13/07/2015
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Mary Hamilton Papers
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Mary Hamilton Papers
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