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Letter from Agneta Yorke to Amabel Hume-Campbell, Lady Polwarth, sent from Tittenhanger.

24 Sep 1779

From: 1779 To: 1779

Concerned to hear from Mr Bland at the Berkhamsted Ball that Lord Polwarth is not as well as he has been lately; hope he is feeling better. Mr Yorke [assumed to be stepson Philip Yorke] is to visit Portsmouth on his way from Weymouth and the writer is to meet him there. Lady Beauchamp may accompany her. Comments on the Berkhamsted Ball, which was 'wearisome'. Death of Dr Plumptre. Mentions a scandal from The Hague relating to Sir Joseph; the writer hears that 'Mr B went at 2 o'clock in the morning to his house to enquire for his wife, who had gone from the play with her lover to [Scheveningen?] and from thence in a fishing boat to England.'

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Yorke, Agneta,
Hume-Campbell, Amabel, 1st Countess de Grey, 5th Baroness Lucas,
Polwarth, Amabel Grey, Viscountess,
Hume-Campbell, Alexander (1st Baron Hume of Berwick),
Plumptre, Charles,
Bland,
Yorke, Philip (3rd Earl of Hardwicke),
Beauchamp-Proctor, Laetitia

family correspondence, Tittenhanger Park, balls, Berkhamsted, The Hague