The Mary Hamilton Papers : Letter from Mary Anne Napier (née Cathcart) to Mary Hamilton

Napier (née Cathcart), Mary Anne, Lady

The Mary Hamilton Papers

<p style='text-align: justify;'>Letter from Mary Anne Napier [later Lady Napier] to Mary Hamilton. She thanks Hamilton for her letter and hopes that everything has now been settled for her and her mother with regard to her father's will. She notes that Hamilton's uncle, Frederick Hamilton, his wife and their eldest daughter have been to Edinburgh to settle ‘their affairs in this Country’ and that they have now gone to Ireland to do the same there. He called at her house when she was still in bed, but they later met in the street, when he gave her ‘the ac[coun]t of his Motions’ that she has passed on.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Napier concludes her letter with news of her family.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Dated at Abbey [Edinburgh].</p>