L30/11/323/104

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

11 Jul 1813

From: 1813 To: 1813

Writing is becoming difficult due to the weakness and contraction of the writer's fingers, but she must continue to correspond in order to recieve the replies that are so welcome. Writer also mentions that she is unable to walk. Is hoping to go to Down Ampney at the end of the week and will see the Eliots. 'What a second most melancholy event has taken place in their family......Poor Mr Eliot is at present quite inconsolable... I hope my son Joseph will be more fortunate in his second marriage..' [Joseph's first wife, Elizabeth, died Jan 1812; he married Lady Urania Anne Paulet in May 1813. Joseph was her third husband]. Mention of Lady Hardwickes 'nervous affection on her voice.' Reference to the death of the son of the Bishop of Kildare. 'An article...gives a mysterious account of the sickness and strict confinement of a great person at Dresden, meaning I suppose, Bonaparte, which is not unlikely - for I hink he must be ready to die with rage and mortification at the surprising turn in this affair...'

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Yorke, Agneta,
Hume-Campbell, Amabell, 1st Countess de Grey, 5th Baroness Lucas,
Polwarth, Amabel Grey, Viscountess,
Lucas, Amabel, Baroness,
Eliot, John,
Yorke, Joseph Sydney,
Paulet, Urania Anne,
Yorke, Urania Anne [Marchioness dowager of Clanricarde],
Bonaparte, Napoleon

family correspondence, Bath, general politics