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Letter from Mary Yorke to Lady Polwarth, sent from Margate. Reference to weather and social life in Margate.

11 Aug 1790

From: 1790 To: 1790

Requests that letters fro the writer's daughter are kept confidential. Pleased that Lady Polwarth has 'the dear boys' with her [probably refers to Lady Polwarth's nephews.] Encloses a note from Miss Forbes [not present]. Writer has attended another ball at Lady Plymouths and a play. The playhouse is very pretty, the scenes painted by the Drury Lane artists. The men actors are better than in London, the ladies worse. Miss Forbes' trip to Calais. Lady Plymouth is the chief friend of the writer's daughters in Margate, but the writer has warned them not to expect this to continue in London. Reference to Mrs Dunn, the young lady 'Old W.' intended for his son Thomas [Waddington], who is now married to the writer's daughter. She is the only child of Mr Gardener, who is immensely rich. It seems she has married a worthy gentleman of small fortune. Old Mr W. has interested himself in her favour and got a sort of promise from Old Gardener to allow them a few hundred pounds a year. Mention of a match between Margaret Fordyce and Sir Horace Man; the writer does not believe it. Will be in London by the 22nd.

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Yorke, Mary,
Maddox, Mary,
Lucas, Amabel, Baroness,
de Grey, Amabel, 1st Countess,
Polwarth, Amabel Grey, Viscountess,
Forbes,
Windsor, Sarah [Lady Plymouth],
Dunn,
Gardener,
Fordyce, Margaret,
Mann, Horace

family correspondence, Margate, balls, theatre