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

Sep 1829

From: 1829 To: 1829

Elizabeth, [daughter, Elizabeth Stuart] her two girls [Louisa and Charlotte] and Sarah Savile [granddaughter] arrived safe and well some days ago. Anne (Lady Pollington) came with the writer to town to receive back her daughter, who is now recovered from her very dangerous illness in Paris. Anne will take her to Yorkshire soon then somewhere to the coast as another change of air. The writer hopes she may be dismissed from her thoughts as an invalid. Elizabeth found rest on her journey and is now looking well; she goes soon to Hampshire, and the writer goes to Ireland. Has not heard much from Elizabeth of the French politics, but gathers the present administration is extremely unpopular. Mention of Count Carlo Andrea Pozzo di Borgo [at the time Russia Ambassador to France] – none of the stories in the newspapers about him are true, but he was much out of spirits at the change of Ministry. Sir Joseph Yorke’s second son [Henry Reginald Yorke], ‘the poor curate of Aspenden [Hertfordshire] goes with us to Ireland, a little amusement that he well deserves.’ Mentin of the Turks. ‘...clear that very important events are hanging in the balance all around us…’ Reference to a visit to Wrest by Lady de Grey with Lady Goderich [Sarah Robinson]

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Yorke, Elizabeth,
de Grey, Amabel,
Lucas, Amabel, Baroness,
Stuart, Elizabeth Margaret,
Stuart, Louisa,
Stuart, Charlotte,
Savile, Sarah,
Savile, Anne [Lady Pollington],
Yorke, Henry Reginald,
Robinson, Sarah Albinia Louisa

family correspondence, Westminster St.James Square, Paris, illness, Ireland, Aspenden, curate