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L30/11/339/4
Title
Letter from Mary Yorke to Lady Amabel Grey. Thanks for the account of the 'Installation' and makes comments [seemingly some sort of investiture or suchlike]. Reference to Mr [Joseph] Banks and his treatment of Miss Blosset; 'he might at least have sent her word a year ago that he had altered is mind and not have kept her a prosoner his whole voyage.' Mention of the transit of Venus.
Date free text
Not dated. [1771?]
Production date
From: 1771 To: 1771
Level of description
item

Persons/institution keyword
Yorke, Mary,
Maddocks, Mary,
Lucas, Amabel, Baroness,
de Grey, Amabel, 1st Countess,
Hume-Campbell, Amabel, 1st Countess de Grey, 5th Baroness Lucas,
Banks, Joseph,
Blosset
Keywords
family correspondence, astronomy

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Wrest Park [Lucas] Archive
fonds | L
- Correspondence
  sub-fonds | L30
  1651-1913
  - Wrest Park (Lucas) Correspondence: To Amabel Yorke (Born 1751, died 1833), Countess de Grey 1816 , B...
    series | L30/11
    1778-1833
    
    Correspondence from Mary Yorke (nee Maddox/Maddocks), wife of James Yorke, Bishop of Ely, mostly to ...
    file | L30/11/339
    1766-1824
    Letter from Mary Yorke to Lady Amabel Grey. Thanks for the account of the 'Installation' and makes c...
    item | L30/11/339/4
    Not dated. [1771?]