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Letter from Agneta Yorke to Amabel, Lady Lucas, sent from Sydney Lodge. [Typed transcript available].

4 Nov 1798

From: 1798 To: 1798

Reference to the destruction of the transports at Alexandria and the surrender of Malta, and other issues of the French Revolutionary Wars. The weather has been stormy, but the house now stands the trial, no water having found it's way where it used to come in like a deluge. Major Yorke and his lady are staying; Mr Beauchamp [nephew?] is also staying. Reports that on the journey, Beauchamp's horse took fright, and the result was a broken gig and Beauchamp with a dislocated wrist. Captain Yorke has been weather-bound in Portsmouth for a fortnight. Mr & Mrs Eliot are in Liskeard; John Eliot has been obliged to reside there for 40 days to qualify himself for an alderman of the corporation. Lady Georgiana spent the summer lodging at Portsmouth, her spouse being on duty at Mill Prison. 'Mrs PhilipYorke has had a bad time and the child is dead; from what I hear of the affair, it perhaps is rather fornunate that it did not live.' Lady Hardwicke has not yet recovered her usual strength and spirits.

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Yorke, Agneta,
Hume-Campbell, Amabell, 1st Countess de Grey, 5th Baroness Lucas,
Polwarth, Amabel Grey, Viscountess,
Lucas, Amabel, Baroness,
Yorke, Charles Philip,
Yorke, Harriet,
Beauchamp,
Yorke, Joseph Sydney,
Eliot, John, 1st Earl of St.Germans,
Eliot, Caroline,
Eliot, Georgiana Augusta,
Yorke, Elizabeth,
Yorke, Jemima (Countess of Hardwicke)

family correspondence, French Revolutionary Wars, alderman, Cornwall Liskeard