L30/11/323/88

Letter from Agneta Yorke to Amabel, Lady Lucas, sent from Bath.

1 Jul 1809

From: 1809 To: 1809

Writer is preparing to go to Down Ampney where she hopes to find daughter Caroline better then when she left two months ago. 'I fear she is not perfectly recovered and that it will be a long time before she is so.' Does not yet know Dr Vaughan's plan for Caroline, and therefore the writer cannot make her own plans. '..I think I shall not travel very far from home, or be long absent from it, for I am grown very indolent, very cowardly and moreover am still rather an invalid, and don't like to be at a distance from the leaches I have been used to.' Has been trying to find a larger and better house, but cannot find anything to suit, and 'too poor to indulge myself with the palaces which it is now the fashion to build and to value accordingly.' Saw Lord and Lady Pollington on their way to Yorkshire. Was pleased to see granddaughter in such good health and spirits. They then went to Clifton to visit Lord & Lady Monson; Lord Monson was taken dangerously ill while they were there, which detained them some days. [Lady Sarah Elizabeth Monson, nee Savile, is the sister of John Savile, Lord Pollington]. Mention of Bonaparte.

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Yorke, Agneta,
Hume-Campbell, Amabell, 1st Countess de Grey, 5th Baroness Lucas,
Polwarth, Amabel Grey, Viscountess,
Lucas, Amabel, Baroness,
Vaughan,
Eliot, Caroline,
Savile, Anne [Lady Pollington],
Savile, John, 3rd Earl Mexborough of Lifford,
Monson, John George, 4th Baron Monson of Burton

family correspondence, Bath, illness, treatment methods, Napoleonic Wars