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Editing supervised by David Denison and Nuria Yáñez-Bouza.<\/p>" }, { "label": "Date of Creation", "value": "10 May 1809" }, { "label": "Origin Place", "value": "Edinburgh" }, { "label": "Next", "value": "/view/AR-HAM-00001-00020-00236" }, { "label": "Prev", "value": "/view/AR-HAM-00001-00020-00234" }, { "label": "Script", "value": "

Hand of writer of the main text, Francis Napier.<\/div><\/div>" }, { "label": "Language(s)", "value": "English" }, { "label": "Physical Location", "value": "John Rylands Research Institute and Library" }, { "label": "Extent", "value": "1 sheet; 533 words" }, { "label": "Classmark", "value": "HAM/1/20/235" }, { "label": "Destination", "value": "Leighton Buzzard" }, { "label": "Author(s) of the Record", "value": "" }, { "label": "Acknowledgements", "value": "
Cataloguer: Crawley, Lisa<\/div>
Cataloguer: Hodgson, John<\/div>
Transliterator: Wallis, Christine (completed 2021-12-20)<\/div><\/div>" }, { "label": "Abstract", "value": "

Letter from Francis Napier, 8th Lord Napier, to Mary Hamilton. It relates to the death of Napier's brother-in-law, Dr [Andrew] Hunter, which he considers a public as well as a private loss. Hunter left his two daughters £3000 each, his young son £4000 and his eldest son will have a landed estate of at least £1200 per annum. He imagines that the estate will be burdened with the expense of the younger children.<\/p>

Napier also writes that he was delighted to receive a letter purportedly, and probably actually, written by Hamilton. He says that Louisa writes very much like Hamilton but that he can read her writing, unlike Hamilton's, without the use of glasses. He writes of \u2018Miss [Elizabeth] Hamilton's Book\u2019, The Cottagers of Glenbernie, which he does not think will reform \u2018that class of people in this Country\u2019: the price of the book \u2018will not admit of their purchasing it, & secondly, because they never will forgive her for exposing their manners to the Englishers\u2019.<\/p>

General Clavering remains in Newgate (HAM/1/20/233) as he \u2018will not condescend to tell the House of Commons that he did wilfully prevaricate, and that they acted justly, in committing him for doing so\u2019 and he must remain there as long as the session lasts.<\/p>

Dated at Queen Street [Edinburgh].<\/p>" }, { "label": "Collection", "value": "Mary Hamilton Papers" }, { "label": "Recipient(s)", "value": "Hamilton, Mary" }, { "label": "Condition", "value": "Not stated." }, { "label": "Author(s)", "value": "Napier, Francis Scott, 8th Lord" } ], "@type": "sc:Manifest", "attribution": "Provided by The University of Manchester.

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Letter from Francis Napier, 8th Lord Napier, to Mary Hamilton. It relates to the death of Napier's brother-in-law, Dr [Andrew] Hunter, which he considers a public as well as a private loss. Hunter left his two daughters £3000 each, his young son £4000 and his eldest son will have a landed estate of at least £1200 per annum. He imagines that the estate will be burdened with the expense of the younger children.<\/p>

Napier also writes that he was delighted to receive a letter purportedly, and probably actually, written by Hamilton. He says that Louisa writes very much like Hamilton but that he can read her writing, unlike Hamilton's, without the use of glasses. He writes of \u2018Miss [Elizabeth] Hamilton's Book\u2019, The Cottagers of Glenbernie, which he does not think will reform \u2018that class of people in this Country\u2019: the price of the book \u2018will not admit of their purchasing it, & secondly, because they never will forgive her for exposing their manners to the Englishers\u2019.<\/p>

General Clavering remains in Newgate (HAM/1/20/233) as he \u2018will not condescend to tell the House of Commons that he did wilfully prevaricate, and that they acted justly, in committing him for doing so\u2019 and he must remain there as long as the session lasts.<\/p>

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