The Mary Hamilton Papers : Letter from William Napier, 7th Lord Napier, to Mary Hamilton

Napier, William, 7th Lord

The Mary Hamilton Papers

<p style='text-align: justify;'>Letter from William Napier [later 7th Lord Napier] to Mary Hamilton. He writes of his pleasure at receiving letters from Hamilton. He suggests that young women are put under excessive pressure from all sides to get married, for fear of becoming old maids. He resumes discussion of trustingness and the dangers of forming too-hasty attachments.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>He has learnt that his father's health has improved and is in hopes of hearing shortly that he is out of danger. Napier will soon learn whether his regiment is to be quartered in Essex and Suffolk rather than Northampton, but either way he will visit himself and spend a few days there on his way to Buxton. He gives instructions on how to emend the direction of a letter to allow for safe and cost-free redirection. He finishes in order to find time to answer the letter of John Hope's that Hamilton had enclosed.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Dated at Canterbury.</p>