L30/11/323/113a

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

11 Jan 1816

From: 1816 To: 1816

Has seen Mr Robinson, Lady Lucas' nephew. The writer is now so lame with rheumatism that she cannot get in and out of a carriage or up and down stairs without help. 'I so thoroughly detest the French and all that relates to them...' 'I do not see why the Prince of S C is not as good a match as any other for our great lady.....' [Refers to Princess Charlotte of Wales and Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, who married 2 May 1816]. Expects to see Joseph Yorke next week, accompanied by his son Henry. Mention of daughter Caroline 'her health has been very indifferent of late.' Reference to a marriage which the writer assumes will take place when Lady Hardwicke is better; writer wishes it had taken place in England. 'The bridegroom's occupation will probably keep him on the continent for many years.' [Assumed to be marriage of Lady Elizabeth Margaret Yorke and Charles Stuart, 1st and last Baron Stuart de Rothesay, who married Feb 1816] General family news.

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Yorke, Agneta,
Hume-Campbell, Amabell, 1st Countess de Grey, 5th Baroness Lucas,
Polwarth, Amabel Grey, Viscountess,
Lucas, Amabel, Baroness,
Robinson, Frederick John (1st Earl of Ripon),
Yorke, Joseph Sydney,
Yorke, Henry Reginald,
Eliot, Caroline,
Princess Charlotte of Wales (1796-1817),
Leopold I of Belgium,
Yorke, Elizabeth Margaret,
Stuart, Charles [1st Baron Stuart de Rothesay]

family correspondence, Bath, rheumatism, illness, specific marriages