L30/11/323/70

Letter from Agneta Yorke to Amabel, Lady Lucas, sent from Goldwell near Newbury.

12 Jul 1804

From: 1804 To: 1804

Reference to haymaking and the weather. Writer describes the house in which she is staying, which was leased by Mr Walker, a friend of Mr Yorke. Walker was beginning to get the house in order when he was 'seized with his last illness.' Walker has left his protege residuary legatee of a large fortune, and he has loaned the house to the writer until michaelmas. 'I had scarcely read in your Ladyship's letter the distressing very account of Mr Carew's family, than I saw in the newspapers the death of the little boy announced - I fear it will too soon be followed by that of his poor mother whose precarious state will hardly I think stand such a shock.' [John Reginald Pole Carew, born 1800, died 8 July 1804; his mother, Jemima died 16 July 1804]. Mention of Lady Grantham 'pray give my best love to her but tell her also that I know not how to excuse the breach of her promise in not coming to me at Bath as she once said she would in the course of the winter.' Hopes Lady Lucas' volunteers make a great figure and will be 'in high order' for Lord Grantham to review when he visits Wrest.

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Yorke, Agneta,
Hume-Campbell, Amabell, 1st Countess de Grey, 5th Baroness Lucas,
Polwarth, Amabel Grey, Viscountess,
Lucas, Amabel, Baroness,
Walker,
Pole Carew, Jemima,
Pole Carew, John Reginald,
Yorke, Mary Jemima,
Robinson, Thomas Philip (3rd Baron Grantham)

family correspondence, militia, Newbury, DEATH