L30/11/329/54

Letter from Elizabeth Yorke, Lady Hardwicke to Lady de Grey, sent from Wimpole.

4 Oct 1825

From: 1825 To: 1825

Reference to Comtess Hompesche [Jacueline Charlotte Comtesse De Hompeschthe]; writer saw her when she was in town, but had no idea how ill she had been, or the nature of the compliant. When the writer saw her some days after she was better. Symptoms are described. ‘Altogether it is supposed that the violent heat of the weather was the cause of the illness and perhaps the fear of the prevalent complaint of cholera morbis.’ Her attendant Elizabeth Stowe is very attentive. She is the hier of Pococke, who the writer believes has retired. This young person is exactly what suits ‘poor Jacqueline’ as she has gentle manners and is sufficiently educated to be a companion Mention of Mrs Antrobus [Anne, nee Lindsay, wife of Edmund Antrobus and daughter of the writer’s brother, Hugh Lindsay], who has had a miscarriage. The writer has written to Mrs Hugh Lindsay [Jane, nee Gordon], to ask after both invalids. The Tunbridge water has done great good to the writer; her voice is returned and general health improved. Lord Hardwicke has had a cold. Lord Eastnor [husband of writer’s daughter Caroline] was alarmingly ill but is recovering. Caroline [daughter, married to John Somers-Cocks], has had a long train of anxieties; her children had croup and whooping cough, and her youngest child a bilious fever. The Caledons [daughter Catherine and her husband Du Pre Alexander, 2nd Earl of Caledon] are staying on their way to Ireland. Their ‘too precious’ boy [James Du Pre Alexander] is at Eton ‘very well and a favourite among the boys of his standing by which I infer he is a good …merry little idle fellow.’ They have been screwing up the roof of the house at Caledon, and have put in windows in a regular way instead of borrowed lights and dormer windows. The house was built when all accommodations were to be hid, no windows to be seen in the roof, and the servants living like little moles below. The Pollington’s are well [daughter Anne and husband John Savile, Viscount Pollington]. They have 2 boys at Eton – one is a good scholar. Elizabeth [daughter, married to Charles Stuart] has letters from Sir Charles – he is lodged by the Emperor in a chateau in a beautiful situation two miles from the Court. [At this time, Charles was serving as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Portugal and Brazil]. Went on a long drive today to the Gog Magog Hills. Lady Frances Osborne is just returned there after a long stay at the Hague and Brussels. Saw Lady Buckinghamshire, who gave a good account of Lady Sarah [Robinson, nee Hobart, wife of Frederick John Robinson] and her daughter Eleanor.

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Yorke, Elizabeth,
de Grey, Amabel,
Lucas, Amabel, Baroness,
Hompesch, Jacqueline Charlotte, Comtesse de,
Stowe, Elizabeth,
Pococke,
Antrobus, Anne,
Lindsay, Jane,
Lindsay, Hugh,
Yorke, Philip (3rd Earl of Hardwicke),
Somers-Cocks, John [2nd Earl Somers],
Somers-Cocks, Caroline Harriet,
Alexander, Du Pre, 2nd Earl of Caledon,
Alexander, Catherine Freeman [Lady Caledon],
Alexander, James Du Pre,
Savile, Anne [Lady Pollington],
Savile, John, 3rd Earl Mexborough of Lifford,
Stuart, Elizabeth Margaret,
Stuart, Charles [1st Baron Stuart de Rothesay],
Osborne, Frances,
Robinson, Sarah Albinia Louisa,
Robinson, Eleanor Henrietta

family correspondence, Wimpole, illness, Tunbridge Wells, whooping cough, Ireland, Eton College, building work