Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    L30/11/330/14
  • Title
    Letter from Harriett Yorke to Lady Lucas, written from Tyttenhanger. Captain and Mrs Yorke regret that they are unable to accept the invitation to Wrest; the weather has been so uncertain that it would not be impracticable, and they are now obliged to return homewards as the Captain has business at Southampton early next week.
  • Date free text
    1 Aug 1802
  • Production date
    From: 1802 To: 1802
  • Admin/biog history
    Harriet Yorke, nee Manningham born c.1763, was the daughter of Charles Manningham and his wife Ann. Her siblings were: Charles William Manningham, b. 1762, d.1849 Coote Manningham, b.c.1765, d.1809 Boyd Manningham, b. 1766 Amelia Manningham, b.1767 Elizabeth Manningham, b.1768, d. 1853 (usually referred to as Eliza or Elvira in the letters) Henry Manningham, b 1773, d. 1821 Coote Manningham married Anna Maria Pollen in 1802. Their children were: Charles Coote Manningham b 1804, d.1810 Boyd Pollen Manningham, b. 1807, d. 1831 Harriet Manningham, b,1806, d. 1824 Mary Anne Manningham, b.1802, who married Edward Buller. Coote Manningham died in 1809, and his wife died in 1822. By Anna Maria's Will, Coote’s siblings Harriet Yorke, Charles William Manningham and Elizabeth Manningham became the guardians of Coote's surviving children (Boyd, Harriet and Mary Anne). The children lived with Elizabeth. The letters contain several references to Elizabeth's "charges" and other details of this side of the family.
  • Scope and Content
    The writer cannot yet fix a time for accepting the invitation, but hopes to let Lady Lucas know when Mr Yorke returns from the quarter sessions in Cambridge. Mrs Yorke will accompany them, but the writer’s sister is not sufficiently recovered to leave home, and must wait another year before she can hope to be in a very moveable state. Assumes Lord and Lady Hardwicke are on their tour through the western provinces [of Ireland]; [Viscount] Royston arrived at Dublin on the 18th and they were to set out together. The writer hears indifferent accounts of ‘poor Mrs Carew’ Mrs Eliot writes that she is now ordered not to expose her eyes to the light and not to suffer the air to blow upon them; in consequence she is confined to the house. The writer fears her health will suffer from this close confinement.
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