L30/9/81/64

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9 Dec 1783

From: 1783 To: 1783

Children have had coughs but not whooping cough. Doctor Ford ordered the 2 eldest 3 grains of James' powder for 2 nights; Philip quite fat and jolly; Mr Thomas has recovered his good humour and taking Lord Grantham into favour "nor am I at all out of his good graces" ... "They are all much oftener downstairs in my rooms than they ever were before; I have produced the box of letters that my sister gave Tommy ... he has some faint idea of P for Papa and B for Brother." "Mrs Yorke told me ... Mr Yorke had sent word that the smallpox was beginning to come out favourably on little Miss Yorke ... I wonder they ventured it". Opera. India bill.

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Ford,
Robinson, Philip,
Robinson, Thomas Philip,
Yorke

CORRESPONDENCE, coughs, smallpox, opera