Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    L30/11/323/35
  • Title
    Letter from Agneta Yorke to Amabel Hume-Campbell, Lady Polwarth, sent from Exmouth. [Typed transcript available]
  • Date free text
    23 Aug 1791
  • Production date
    From: 1791 To: 1791
  • Scope and Content
    Describes journey with daughter Caroline from Sydney Farm. Left on Sunday noon, and did not arrive until Wednesday dinner time. Travelled with own horses; one of which became ill and had to remain in Honiton for a few days. Sydney (som Joseph Sidney Yorke) came from Spithead to visit, and took them for a cruise. Also went on a fishing trip with Sidney. Describes divine service on the ship on Sunday morning. Went as far as Dartmouth, but due to lack of wind, could not return in the evening and were forced to be towed into the bay. Started back the next morning; then there was a thunderstrom; eventually got back to Exmouth at 7 o'clock on Tuesday morning. John Eliot and son Charles came over on Saturday last, and departed for the Exeter assizes yesterday. Caroline is going to the assize ball. Mrs C Yorke is 'in some hopes of encreasing her family and is very well in health.....I hope she will not again be disappointed.' Mention of how much Lady Polwarth's nephews must enjoy Wrest 'where all amusement fit for schoolboys abound'. Mention of improvements Lady Grey is making [at Wrest]. The writer heard that Lord Coutenay's fete was very ill attended, 'owing to the dislike the gentry of his province have for him.' It is said his steward has declared he can no longer furnish money for his enormous expenses. The writer will remain in Exmouth another fortnight, then proceed to Port Eliot and return to Sydney Farm around the end of September.
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