L30/11/329/14

Letter from Elizabeth Yorke to Lady Lucas, sent from Wimpole.

Monday 25th [no month] 1799

From: 1799 To: 1799

Reference to commitments and trying to arrange time for Lady Lucas to visit Wimpole. Hopes also to prevail on the Charles Yorkes to attend. Is surprised to hear that Mrs Yorke has grown quite stout. Mention of current affairs. Mrs Carew has been at all the Royal fetes. Mlle. De Hompesche heard from her sister the maid of honour that nobody seemed in such high favour with all the royalties as the said Mrs Carew. Mlle. De Hompesche is very anxious to hear from her brother who is of the expedition – the contradictory reports concerning them have been very distressing. In response to Lady Lucas’ question regarding Mr Wyndham, brother of Lord Egremont [William Frederick Wyndham, appointed the English Ambassador to Tuscany in 1794, brother of George O'Brien Wyndham, 3rd Earl of Egremont] ‘He is the very man who is everything by starts and nothing long – and is besides I really believe a very silly fellow (as I have heard men say).’ The hay fields are still full of hay makers; the corn is very late but some wheat has been cut in the neighbourhood. Accounts from the north are bad – extremely late and turnips have almost totally failed. Potatoes also are in a bad way – we will all be starved again this winter.

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Yorke, Elizabeth,
Hume-Campbell, Amabel, 1st Countess de Grey, 5th Baroness Lucas,
de Grey, Amabel,
Lucas, Amabel, Baroness,
Yorke, Charles,
Carew,
Hompesch, Jacqueline Charlotte, Comtesse de,
Wyndham, William Frederick,
Wyndham, George O'Brien (3rd Earl of Egremont)

family correspondence, Wimpole, Tuscany, ambassador, harvesting