L30/11/329/80

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

Tuesday No Date [Jun 1831]

From: 1831 To: 1831

Writer was ill after the ‘drawing room’ and the bazaar, but is now recovering. Other invalids in the house have turned the corner and are considered convalescent. The bazaar produced £3,500 in trumpery sold and receipts at the door. Some intended items have been withheld from the supposition that the Government meant immediately to send relief, which does not appear to have been done, at least on anything like the scale of private charity. The writer’s stall raised £150. Lady de Grey’s etchings added to the till over £2. Mentions names of persons who helped at the bazaar. [Bazaar held at the Hanover Square Rooms for the relief of the distressed Irish Jun 1831] At the drawing room the writer presented her granddaughter Sarah [Elizabeth] Savile [born c.1813] and her Mother. The house in Dover Street is now done up and is a very excellent mansion. The Caledons [daughter Catherine and husband Du Pre Alexander] move into theirs next week and the vacuum is filled by Lord & Lady Stuart de Rothesay ‘till they can look about themselves’ [Daughter Elizabeth and husband Charles Stuart, who was ambassador to France 1828-1831; presumably recently returned from France]. Separate note: the remainder of the goods are to be sold off on Saturday. They sold 21 drawings by Miss Berry and Mr Selwin for nearly £30. Lady Caledon has three or four Chinese mats left which she intends to sell on Saturday. They are 10s each. Lady Caledon would send one if Lady de Grey would like to see it.

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Yorke, Elizabeth,
de Grey, Amabel,
Lucas, Amabel, Baroness,
Savile, Sarah Elizabeth,
Alexander, Catherine Freeman [Lady Caledon],
Alexander, Du Pre, 2nd Earl of Caledon,
Stuart, Elizabeth Margaret,
Stuart, Charles [1st Baron Stuart de Rothesay],
Berry,
Selwin

family correspondence, bazaars, illness, charity, Mayfair Dover Street, drawings