L30/11/329/19

Letter from Elizabeth Yorke to Lady Lucas, sent from Wimpole. [Typed transcript available].

Oct 1800

From: 1800 To: 1800

Lord Hardwicke arrived last night from town and without being able to complete the business of the purchasing of the house in St. James Square, which still remains unsettled. This means they are uncertain when they will be at home and must therefore decline Lady Lucas’ kind offer of a visit. When the purchase is completed the writer will be obliged to go to Town to set workmen going and arrange furnishings. ‘You will be surprised to hear that the Carews are to buy our house in New Cavendish Street – I think it a most disinterested thing for Mr Yorke to prefer their being there though at so great a distance from him, but he was so much distressed at the children being so much crowded together at the time of their illness that Mrs Carew and he carried the point against Mr Carew’s uncertainties’ Writer rejoices that the Carew’s have a second boy [John Reginald Pole Carew, born 1800, died 8 Jul 1804, son of Reginald Pole-Carew and Jemima, nee Yorke] The bishop and Mrs Yorke [James Yorke, Bishop of Ely and wife Mary] and the Bullers are in Town, which for October makes more of a Society than is generally found in London at this time of year.

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Yorke, Elizabeth,
Hume-Campbell, Amabel, 1st Countess de Grey, 5th Baroness Lucas,
de Grey, Amabel,
Lucas, Amabel, Baroness,
Yorke, Philip (3rd Earl of Hardwicke),
Carew,
Pole-Carew, John Reginald,
Pole-Carew, Jemima,
Pole-Carew, Reginald,
Yorke, James,
Yorke, Mary,
Buller

family correspondence, Wimpole, Westminster St.James Square, New Cavendish Street