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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;'>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: Wallis, Christine (completed 2021-09-07)<\/div><\/div>"
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   "value": "<p style='text-align: justify;'>Letter from Francis Napier, 8th Lord Napier, to Mary Hamilton, describing a potential wife. Napier light-heartedly informs Hamilton that he will be in her part of the country shortly to be introduced to the seventeen-year-old Miss H. who he describes as having a fortune of £70,000, a house and park and a \u2018face better than one in three you meet with\u2019. He proposes to \u2018make a very brisk attack\u2019 and he believes that he will be successful as he writes the lady \u2018wants a Title, Master wants her Cash\u2019. He asks Hamilton, as a poet, to forward him some of her compositions that he can \u2018warble\u2019 to his \u2018mate\u2019 with a \u2018proper portion of flame, Darts, Loves, Graces, cupids, sighs [...]\u2019 and so on. Napier continues with examples of the types of poetry he has in mind. He intends to sing the verses to his prospective wife and as long as \u2018her heart is not made of Marble\u2019 he thinks she will \u2018surrender\u2019.<\/p>"
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