L30/11/323/141

Letter from Agneta Yorke to Lady Lucas, sent from Bath.

Sunday 12 Nov [No year]

From: 1815 To: 1816

Thanks for partridges. Mention of the blowing up of a Man of War. Does not envy Lady Grantham her review of the Russian Army. Mention of the 'magnificence and sublimity' of the military sights seen by Lord Grantham, including Lord Wellington's entry into Paris with his victorius army. Hopes that 'the event' will put a stop to the emigration 'of our infatuated country men and women and their unlimited waste of guineas, as well as the overflow of monstrous fashions which our belles...adopt and call them French.' Other comments relating to the present political situation. Asks about James Yorke's indisposition; 'I have long been doubtful of his intellect - he has conducted himself always in so extraordinary a way and given his ... Mother so much trouble and anxiety that one cannot account for it in any other manner.' The writer believes the family sees very little of him, and she does not know where he resides or what he does with himself. Mrs P. Yorke will be a great loss, and the writer fears she is in a bad way, though she denies being so ill. Mrs Eliot is still in a bad state of health; 'if poor Mr Eliot loses her, I think he will find it rather difficult to get a 5th wife.' Lord Lord Valletort gives a scandalous account of the Regina [Caroline of Brunswick].

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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,
Robinson, Thomas Philip (3rd Baron Grantham),
Wellington, Arthur Wesley, 1st Duke of,
Robinson, Henrietta Frances,
Yorke, James,
Edgcumbe, William Richard, Viscount Valletort,
Caroline of Brunswick, Princess of Wales,
Eliot

family correspondence, general politics, Napoleonic Wars, Paris, partridges, illness