L30/11/329/50

Letter from Elizabeth Yorke, Lady Hardwicke to Lady de Grey. Lord Hardwicke proposes to extend the house. He has not forgotten Lady de Grey’s wishes, and has instructed the architect Mr Soane to sacrifice the proportion, in height at least, so as not to obstruct a particular view. Reference to the lowering of a party wall.

3 Nov 1818

From: 1818 To: 1818

Writer has had letters from the Caledons from Milan; they are probably now at Florence and will proceed to Naples and then to Rome and will return to England in the summer. [Refers to daughter Catherine and husband Du Pre Alexander, 2nd Earl of Caledon] Heard a superb account of the Newby festivities from Lady Pollington, who spent a few days there. [daughter Ann, married to John Savile]

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Yorke, Elizabeth,
de Grey, Amabel,
Lucas, Amabel, Baroness,
Yorke, Philip (3rd Earl of Hardwicke),
Soane,
Alexander, Catherine Freeman [Lady Caledon],
Alexander, Du Pre, 2nd Earl of Caledon,
Savile, Anne [Lady Pollington],
Savile, John, 3rd Earl Mexborough of Lifford

family correspondence, architect, building work, Milan (Province), Florence, Naples, Rome, Newby