L30/11/339/276

Letter from Mary Yorke to Lady Lucas, sent from Forthampton. Horkesley family [Philip Yorke] left on Monday last and made a short stay in Town before returning home. They had been 8 weeks in the writer's part of the world.

19 Dec 1809

From: 1809 To: 1809

Evenings were enlivened by the loan of the book of Lord Valentia's travels. Makes comment on the work. [Note: George Annesley, 2nd Earl of Mountnorris, styled Viscount Valentia between 1793 and 1816. Lord Valentia's Voyages and Travels to India, Ceylon, the Red Sea, Abyssinia and Egypt, in the years 1802, 1803, 1804, 1805, and 1806, were published in 1809 in three volumes.] Comments about Bonaparte with reference to classical figures.

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Yorke, Mary,
Maddox, Mary,
Lucas, Amabel, Baroness,
de Grey, Amabel, 1st Countess,
Hume-Campbell, Amabel, 1st Countess de Grey, 5th Baroness Lucas,
Yorke, Philip,
Annesley, George [2nd Earl of Mountnorris],
Bonaparte, Napoleon

family correspondence, books, Napoleonic Wars