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Letter from Agneta Yorke to the Countess de Grey.

18 Jun 1819

From: 1819 To: 1819

General comments about the weather, garden, flowers, etc. Wonders if Countess de Grey will take a trip to Town to honour the Persian ambassador and 'take a peer' at his 'black Turkish slave'. Thanks Countess de Grey for her account of the Royal sale.[Christie's auction of Queen Charlotte's possessions]. Writer would have liked to have viewed the fine unique things, especially the china and curiosities. Miss O'Neill is at present acting every night to crowded houses; after she has performed all her parts every visitor will vanish and none but the keepers of lodging houses remain. Reference to Miss Carew 'I hope will have dried her everlasting fountain of tears by this time, which I hear has been too much noticed. The disappointment must have been terrible!'

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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,
O'Neill, Elizabeth,
Queen Charlotte,
Carew

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