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   "value": "Letter from William Napier (later 7th Lord Napier) to Mary Hamilton"
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   "value": "<p>Editing supervised by David Denison and Nuria Yáñez-Bouza.<\/p>"
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   "value": "<div style='list-style-type: disc;'><div style='display: list-item; margin-left: 20px;'>Hand of writer of the main text, William Napier.<\/div><div style='display: list-item; margin-left: 20px;'>Hand of writer of the annotation at the top right of p.1, Elizabeth Anson.<\/div><div style='display: list-item; margin-left: 20px;'>Hand of writer of the cross at the top right of p.1 and the marginal annotations on pp.3-5, probably a member of the Anson family.<\/div><div style='display: list-item; margin-left: 20px;'>Hand of writer of the number at the top left of p.1, probably Mary Hamilton.<\/div><\/div>"
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   "value": "<div style='list-style-type: disc;'><div style='display: list-item; margin-left: 20px;'>Cataloguer: Crawley, Lisa<\/div><div style='display: list-item; margin-left: 20px;'>Cataloguer: Hodgson, John<\/div><div style='display: list-item; margin-left: 20px;'>Transliterator: Ulph, Cassandra (completed 2020-12-11)<\/div><\/div>"
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   "value": "<p style='text-align: justify;'>Letter from William Napier [later 7th Lord Napier] to Mary Hamilton, concerning her wish to learn Latin. Napier writes thanking Hamilton for telling him of her secret of studying Latin and assures her that he will not tell anyone but notes that he would have attempted to dissuade her from doing so if he could. The language, he notes, is not \u2018only tedious in taking up years but when acquired of very little use to any body but those who[s]e employment are what is called the learned professions [...] and all the books in that language proper for your reading (for many are very improper for Lady\u2019s) are translated into english\u2019. Napier continues that as she is determined to study then he advises that she keep it secret from her friends and from everyone else. A learned woman, Napier writes, \u2018is most commonly looked on as a great fault even by the learned\u2019.<\/p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Napier also writes that he has got a copy of Mrs Elizabeth Carter\u2019s poems for her. He concludes his letter on the subject of a newspaper report about an altercation that some of his regiment were involved in at Canterbury. The bustle was minor and caused by a drunken custom house officer.<\/p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Dated at Canterbury.<\/p>"
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