L30/11/329/41

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

29 Sep 1805

From: 1805 To: 1805

Writer remains at Wimpole till Viscount Royston [son Philip] moves; if he goes to town to remain any time writer will take the opportunity to see ‘My Earl India Man’ who is returned to his wife and children. [Refers to writer’s brother, Hugh Primrose Lindsay, of British East India Company’s marine service] Viscount Royston has been uncomfortable and ill, but the ‘medical folks’ say that the chief mischief is slowly decreasing – ‘I mean the enlargement of the shin bone. Doubts he will be able to go to Russia this winter. Reference to clearing and thinning out overgrown plantations at Wimpole, and mention of Mr Repton in this context. Does not know when Lord Hardwicke will be re-established at Wimpole; is waiting for a successor to be appointed. Had expected Mr Yorke and Harriet [Charles Philip Yorke and wife?] but they did not arrive due to an accident he had some days ago – a fall on his elbow. They propose coming tomorrow. The writer prays to see him in a more active occupation, and has no doubt that he will again be in public life. Reference to the situation in Europe. Lady Grantham [Mary Jemima Robinson] is going to see her son and daughter [in law] in their married house. [Thomas and new wife Henrietta]. Mention of clothing for the poor.

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Yorke, Elizabeth,
Lucas, Amabel, Baroness,
de Grey, Amabel,
Yorke, Philip, Viscount Royston,
Lindsay, Hugh Primrose,
Repton, Humphry,
Yorke, Philip (3rd Earl of Hardwicke),
Yorke, Charles Philip,
Yorke, Harriet,
Robinson, Mary Jemima,
Robinson, Henrietta Frances,
Robinson, Thomas (3rd Baron Grantham)

family correspondence, Wimpole, East India Company, illness, plantations, charity