L30/11/323/183

Letter from Agneta Yorke to Lady Lucas, sent from Down Ampney.

1 Aug [No year]

From: 1811 To: 1812

Thanks for venison, which arrived in excellent order and was enjoyed by the writer, the Eliots and the writer's sons, who were visiting. Joseph went fishing and caught a fish weighing five and a half pounds. Mention of the weather and crops. Lady M Fordyce is to be married to Sir J Bland Burgess. 'What can induce either of them to such a step I cannot imagine.' [In 1812, Lamb married for the third time to Lady Margaret Fordyce, widow of Alexander Fordyce and daughter of James Lindsay, 5th Earl of Balcarres]. Brief family news.

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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,
Yorke, Charles Philip,
Yorke, Joseph Sydney,
Fordyce, Margaret,
Burgess, James Bland

family correspondence, venison, fishing, specific marriages