L30/11/323/22

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

2 Mar 1780

From: 1780 To: 1780

Writer is dispirited with 'my poor sisiter's melancholy situation', a cold and a chilblain. Mention of a husband for Lady Mary Yorke; the writer does not know of any young man of rank suitable for her - 'none that have not something objectionable about them.' Reference to the writer's niece being in 'a most deplorable way, and all we have to hope for now is her speedy dissolution.' Mr John [Yorke?] has set our for Bath. Mention of the 'Bishop's family' [Rev. James Yorke]. He has pulled his house and park to pieces at Hamels and will probably by shut out from thence all the summer.

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Yorke, Agneta,
Hume-Campbell, Amabel, 1st Countess de Grey, 5th Baroness Lucas,
Polwarth, Amabel Grey, Viscountess,
Beauchamp-Proctor, Laetitia,
Yorke, Mary Jemima,
Yorke, John,
Yorke, James

family correspondence, illness