L30/11/329/61

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

Jan 1831

From: 1831 To: 1831

Mention of the recovery of the ‘too precious boy’ and the health of the ‘Hastings invalid’ [Thomas Philip Robinson]; writer wonders whether Buxton has been considered for him; the warm baths there have proved beneficial to the writer’s brother and also a young man in the parish. Reports news from daughter Elizabeth Stuart from Paris. Daughter Catherine in Ireland did not mention the arrest of O’Connell in her letter. Everything continues quiet around Caledon; the people have work and they pay their rents. Mention of the scarcity of potatoes in Ireland; a very scanty crop for the past two years. Mention of Lady Stuart having let her house to the newly married Egertons, but then being ill and too unfit to go to her lodge in Richmond Park; a disagreeable predicament, more so as she expects Lord Stuart over to be presented and to take up his seat. Writer does not know when he Caledons will come – they had intended to be at the meeting of Parliament, but may be delayed if Lord Caledon is needed in Ireland. On Monday the Eastnors leave for Leamington; they have built a pretty small house there, partly for his winter hunting – it is only a half day journey from Eastnor. Eastnor will be with the writer during parliament, and Caroline will occasionally come to town. Uneasy about Lady Somers; she has no actual illness but grows weak and thin ; her family are in some measure alarmed about her. [Reference to Margaret, wife of John Sommers Cocks, 1st Earl Sommers]. Neighbours the Delawares leave Brown Hall tomorrow, to the writer’s regret, as he is always ready to assist in any possible way. Captain [Charle Philip] Yorke is in the Mediterranean and holds the fortress of Carabusa for the Russions, the English and the French till the Turks resume possession. Brief family news.

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Yorke, Elizabeth,
de Grey, Amabel,
Lucas, Amabel, Baroness,
Robinson, Thomas Philip,
Stuart, Elizabeth Margaret,
O'Connell,
Alexander, Catherine Freeman [Lady Caledon],
Egerton,
Stuart, Charles [1st Baron Stuart de Rothesay],
Alexander, Du Pre, 2nd Earl of Caledon,
Somers-Cocks, Caroline Harriet,
Somers-Cocks, John [2nd Earl Somers],
Cocks, John Sommers, 1st Earl Somers,
Cocks, Margaret,
Sackville-West, George John [5th Earl De La Warr],
Yorke, Charles Philip

family correspondence, Wimpole, Paris, Ireland, potatoes, Leamington