Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    L30/11/330/138
  • Title
    Letter from Harriett Yorke to Countess de Grey, written from Bonnington.
  • Date free text
    8? Dec [1824]
  • Production date
    From: 1824 To: 1824
  • 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
    Thanks for venison; invited three clerical neighbours with the wife and sister of one to partake of the haunch, and it was pronounced most excellent. Mr Yorke has had a most severe ‘paroxysm’ of rheumatism in his head and face, which was aggravated, or possibly caused, by a violent toothache. The tooth has now been removed. Has heard nothing from Cornwall following the death of Lord St Germans [November 1823], and Elizabeth Carew seems equally as ignorant; the only information she had was from Mrs Glanville’s letter (the mother in law of Amabel Glanville, nee Carew). Fortunate that the present Lord St. Germans [William Eliot, 2nd Earl] had given up the idea of passing the winter in Naples. Since nothing seems to be known of the contents of Lord St.German’s Will, it is likely that Mr Carew did not consider it right that any particulars are communicated until the arrival of the new Lord St. Germans at Port Eliot. Writer has no doubt that the widow [Harriet, nee Pole Carew] will have an ample fortune, and the new Lord St. Germans may feel that a young widow is somewhat of a burden upon his estate; however, as she might have been the cause of depriving him of it altogether he may decide to bear the lesser evil. Writer understands that as soon at the funeral was over, Lady St. Germans was to remove with her father [Reginald Pole Carew] to Antony [Antony House, Cornwall]. Mention of illness of Mrs Colleton [Charlotte Jemima, nee Pole Carew, by this time the wife of Alphonse Joseph Marie Morel de Champemont]; she is going to Rome as soon as she is well enough, and hoped to proceed from thence to England. Seems to refer to Charlotte’s second marriage - ‘I feel…that Charlotte will not be in the least disposed to acknowledge that she has been guilty in any way of impudence, on the contrary I think she is much more likely to assert her privilege of doing what she thought was most conducive to her own happiness and of justifying herself upon the plea of being entirely her own mistress! She has always been inclined to show a spirit of independence, and I remember her exerting it even before her first marriage.’ Lady Hardwicke has been confined ten days to her room with a severe bilious attack; she is getting better, though not yet well.
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