Letter from Francis Napier, 8th Lord Napier, to Mary Hamilton (HAM/1/20/84)
Letter from Francis Napier, 8th Lord Napier, to Mary Hamilton. At the top of the sheet Napier has written 'From the Living to the Dead. No. 1'. He complains that he has been expecting for a number of months a letter from the underworld, where he assumes Hamilton has taken up residence. He continues in the same vein, claiming that he daily examines the list of marriages and deaths but is still unsuccessful in accounting for Hamilton's silence.
Dated at Edinburgh.
Information about this document
- Physical Location: John Rylands Research Institute and Library
- Collection: Mary Hamilton Papers
- Classmark: HAM/1/20/84
- Title: Letter from Francis Napier, 8th Lord Napier, to Mary Hamilton
- Author(s): Napier, Francis Scott, 8th Lord
- Origin Place: Edinburgh
- Date of Creation: 16 December 1783
- Date of Sending: 16 December 1783
- Recipient(s): Hamilton, Mary
- Destination: unknown
- Language(s): English
- Extent: 1 sheet; 209 words
- Condition: Not stated.
- Script:Hand of writer of the main text, Francis Napier.
- Project Information:
Editing supervised by David Denison and Nuria Yáñez-Bouza.
- Acknowledgements:Cataloguer: Crawley, LisaCataloguer: Hodgson, JohnTransliterator: Wallis, Christine (completed 2021-09-24)
- Last Revised: 2021-12-03
First edited in the project 'Unlocking the Mary Hamilton Papers' (Hannah Barker, Sophie Coulombeau, David Denison, Tino Oudesluijs, Cassandra Ulph, Christine Wallis & Nuria Yáñez-Bouza, 2019-2023).
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- Physical Location: John Rylands Research Institute and Library
- Collection: Mary Hamilton Papers
- Classmark: HAM/1/20/84
- Title: Letter from Francis Napier, 8th Lord Napier, to Mary Hamilton
- Author(s): Napier, Francis Scott, 8th Lord
- Origin Place: Edinburgh
- Date of Creation: 16 December 1783
- Date of Sending: 16 December 1783
- Recipient(s): Hamilton, Mary
- Destination: unknown
- Language(s): English
- Extent: 1 sheet; 209 words
- Condition: Not stated.
- Script:Hand of writer of the main text, Francis Napier.
- Project Information:
Editing supervised by David Denison and Nuria Yáñez-Bouza.
- Acknowledgements:Cataloguer: Crawley, LisaCataloguer: Hodgson, JohnTransliterator: Wallis, Christine (completed 2021-09-24)
- Last Revised: 2021-12-03
