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

2 Jan 1824

From: 1824 To: 1824

Condolences on the death of Mary Yorke, widow of James Yorke, Bishop of Ely. Reports death of housekeeper who had been with the family nearly forty years; ‘her health was very bad but she was so faithful and so attached that I shall miss her much.’ The Eastnors are staying with their three fine children. [daughter Caroline and husband John Somers Somers Cocks] Elizabeth [daughter, married to Charles Stuart] reports that they are not called on to be outrageously happy at the success of the Duc d’Angouleme, though they have attended the public fetes. At the play given at the Tuilleries she said the poor King with his head sunk on his breast looked like a balloon with a hole in it, sinking as the air escaped. ‘He will not have long I fear – but every day he does continue is of consequence to the general quiet.’ [Louis XVIII, died September 1824]. Lord Hardwicke is in good health and free from the strange spasms that affected his health some time ago. Had a delightful visit from the Chancellor of the Exchequer [Frederick John Robinson, later Viscount Goderich] and Lady Sarah [his wife, nee Hobart] with ‘the little pair’. All were well.

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Yorke, Elizabeth,
de Grey, Amabel,
Lucas, Amabel, Baroness,
Yorke, Mary,
Yorke, James,
Somers-Cocks, Caroline Harriet,
Somers-Cocks, John [2nd Earl Somers],
Stuart, Elizabeth Margaret,
Louis Antoine of France, Duke of Angoulême,
Louis XVIII,
Yorke, Philip (3rd Earl of Hardwicke),
Robinson, Frederick John (1st Viscount Goderich),
Robinson, Sarah Albinia Louisa

family correspondence, Wimpole, DEATH, housekeeper