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, relating to the health of her husband. She writes the letter from her husband's bedside. He is being attended to by two physicians ‘who don[']t even flatter me, he'll soon get well’. Napier is so anxious and exhausted from lack of sleep that she can barely hold her pen.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Dated at Abbey [Edinburgh].</p>

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