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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 2021-10-27)<\/div><\/div>"
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   "value": "<p style='text-align: justify;'>Letter from Francis Napier, 8th Lord Napier, to Mary Hamilton, relates to the foundation of \u2018Napier\u2019 University and to Wilton Lodge. Napier writes that Hamilton may laugh at his Masonic Dignities and at the differing levels within it but his \u2018elevated situation\u2019 comes with a degree of expense and inconvenience \u2018fifty of my good Pounds go to assist the building of that College [the new University of Edinburgh], the foundation of which I so happily deposited last November. In return for my cash, I have to boast of having received the freedom of the City of Edinburgh & the Degree of Doctor of Laws from the University\u2019. He confesses he could have spent the money much more to his satisfaction in stone in Wilton Lodge. He continues in a light-hearted manner on the foundation ceremony noting that his public appearances as Grand Master and the speeches he has made are good preparation if the Peers are \u2018silly\u2019 enough to vote him into Parliament at the next General Election. Tongue-in-cheek he writes that \u2018as an orator, Burke is a joke to me, & Sheridan unfit to hold a Candle\u2019.<\/p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Napier includes a sketch of his home Wilton Lodge and a description of the layout of the house.<\/p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Napier ends his letter by saying that as he never had any \u2018particular reason to rejoice in the Military life, I feel no regret from quitting it\u2019.<\/p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Dated at Wilton Lodge [Roxburghshire].<\/p>"
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