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L30/11/323/119
Title
Letter from Agneta Yorke to the Countess de Grey.
Date free text
14 Nov 1817
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From: 1817 To: 1817
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The writer was shocked by the contents of Countess de Grey's melancholy letter. Anxiously impatient to hear further accounts of poor Lady Grantham. 'What an unfortunate circumstance! To be detained at the turnpike just long enough to hear the fatal news so suddenly, after the precautions taken to prevent anything of the kind! A boy too! I hope the only darling she [Lady Grantham] has of that sex improves in health and strength and is likely to get perfectly free from all the delicacies which have alarmed you during his infancy.' [relates to Lady Grantham giving birth to a stillborn son]. Knows nothing certain of the Queen's return to Bath. Answering Countess de Grey's question relating to Mr Philip Yorke, 'there is no truth in the story of the tamarind Stone - the report may have arisen from the operating surgeons having said, that the stone found to have broken it's way out of one of the kidneys (supposed a gallstone) and was the cause of immediate death, resembled a tamarind stone and was of that size. It was said that walking a few days before his death with a friend, he jumped over a low stile, which occasioned the ruptire and the fatal event that followed...' [Possibly reference to Reverend Philip Yorke, born 24 Feb 1770, died 29 May 1817, son of James Yorke, Bishop pf Ely]
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