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L30/11/323/146
Title
Letter from Agneta Yorke to Lady Lucas, sent from Down Ampney. [Typed transcript available].
Date free text
14 Aug [1816]
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From: 1816 To: 1816
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Soon leaving Down Ampney and hosts are leaving for the west, visiting Estnor Castle on the way. [Estnor Castle is in Herefordshire; seat of Lord Somers, whose son had married Lady Caroline Yorke]. Reference to theatre and actors Keane, Kemble, Macklin and Cooke. 'I am afraid our poor Princess [Charlotte] is confined by a much more alarming disorder than an early miscarriage - we have it from pretty good authority that she is suffering under the old constitutional complaint which carried her so constantly to the sea side - and that it has now also fallen on her back, so that she cannot bear the motion of a carriage or wlaking without help - poor young creature, her happy days are soon clouded over indeed! It affects one very much to consider how short her specimen of cungugal felicity, and liberation from the miseries of Royal confinement has been - the prospects of Princess Mary are much more favourable, I really believe...' [Reference to Princess Mary's marriage to Prince William Frederick, Duke of Gloucester]. Reference to Mrs J Yorke [Mary, widow of James Yorke, bishop of Ely]; has had a house full of chldren and a poor invalid; Mrs P Yorke left her feeling much better. Writer's neice Laetitia has accompanied Mrs P Yorke to Horkesley [Catherine, nee Cocks, married to Philip Yorke, son of James Yorke, Bishop of Ely]. Laetitia remians concerned about Catherine's health. Lady Caroline Cocks and her spouse spent two days with the writer last week; they were on their way from Lord Abercorn's, where they left the Duke & Duchess of Cumberland. The Hardwickes are expected in England about October; they have left Paris.
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