• Reference
    L30/11/241/24
  • Title
    Letter from Mary Gertrude Robinson to Amabel, Lady Lucas, Countess de Grey.
  • Date free text
    7 Feb 1832
  • Production date
    From: 1832 To: 1832
  • Scope and Content
    Anne [sister] has been confined to bed for some days suffering from a cold and rash. Have been quite alone for the last week, but expect the Bathursts on Friday with Lord Fitzgerald and perhaps Sir George Murry. Heard from Lady Goderich [wife of writer's uncle, Frederick John Robinson]; glad the little boy is better agian [George Frederick Samuel Robinson, cousin of writer]. Writer supposes they will soon settle in their new house in Carlton Terrace. Rode with Papa to see the Lautours, but they were out; meant to see their church, [Little Staughton?] which they have been repairing and beautifying 'it is very pretty, but not to be compared with our Silsoe one, which we flatter ourselves is the perfect model for a village church'
  • Level of description
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