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Letter from Agneta Yorke to the Countess de Grey, sent from Bath.

12 Jun 1819

From: 1819 To: 1819

Writer regrets her state of health meant that she could not meet Countess de Grey at Forthampton. It is 11 months since the writer left home for even one night. Hope the weather has not affected hay making at Wrest. Mention of a Royal visit to Wimpole. Anne Pollington [Anne, Savile, nee Yorke, Lady Pollington] 'is to represent her Mother and do the honours of the place; as Caroline has not produced the expected son and heir in time to release poor Lady Hardwicke from her attendance at Reigate'. Writer hopes there will be no disappointment with regard to the sex when the child arrives. [Reference to Caroline Harriet Sommers Cocks, nee Yorke, who produced a son, Charles, on 14 July 1819]. The nuptials are to take place next month and the new married folks are to be at Down Ampney in September 'whether they will come through Bath I Know not, but I rather hope they will not, for the meeting between us will be a most melancholy and dreaded one be me' [Refers to the marriage of writer's son in law John Eliot to Harriet Pole-Carew in August 1919, following the death of his first wife, Caroline, daughter of the writer.]

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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,
Sommers Cocks, Caroline Harriet,
Savile, Anne [Lady Pollington],
Yorke, Elizabeth,
Sommers Cocks, Charles Somers,
Eliot, John, 1st Earl of St.Germans,
Pole Carew, Jemima

family correspondence, Bath, Wrest, Wimpole, ROYALTY, Reigate [Surrey], specific marriages