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Letter from Agneta Yorke to the Countess de Grey, sent from Port Eliot. [Typed transcript available]

13 Jul 1818

From: 1818 To: 1818

Thanks for offer of venison. Daughter's appetite is so weak that the family try to indulge it with anything she takes a fancy to, and she is particularly fond of venison. Writer has been at Port Eliot nearly two months; thought her daughter's health was improving, but for the last 10 days she has again been suffering from a billious attack. There is small prospect of a speedy or permanent recovery [Caroline Eliot, died 26 July 1818]. General comments regarding family. 'I hear the D of C [Duke of Clarence, later William IV] does not relish the marriage with a foreigner at all and that Adelaide is very ugly' [Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, whom he married 11 July 1818]

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Yorke, Agneta,
Hume-Campbell, Amabell, 1st Countess de Grey, 5th Baroness Lucas,
Polwarth, Amabel Grey, Viscountess,
Lucas, Amabel, Baroness,
de Grey, Amabel, 1st Countess,
Eliot, Caroline,
Adelaide of Saxe-Coburg and Meinengen [Queen of William IV],
William IV

family correspondence, Bath, venison, illness, specific marriages, ROYALTY