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Letter from Mary Yorke to Lady Lucas, sent from Ely. [Typed transcript available]. Son Philip, his wife Anna and their three boys arrived last Saturday. Did not think Mlle de Hompesch was well when she was staying.

5 Nov 1804

From: 1804 To: 1804

Mention of Frederick's voyage [Frederick John Robinson]. 'I do not doubt he is very comfortable in his present situation, and when Lord Grantham joins the party in January the castle will be all alive and gay.' [Philip Yorke, 3rd Earl Hardwicke, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, appointed Frederick as his private secretary in 1804]. Reference to the seizure of Sir George Rumbold [On 24 October 1804 Rumbold was abducted by French troops on the flimsy pretext that British Ministers on the Continent had conspired against France]. Mention of Mr & Mrs Reeve of Cambridgeshire who have a son in Gibralter.

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Yorke, Mary,
Maddox, Mary,
Lucas, Amabel, Baroness,
de Grey, Amabel, 1st Countess,
Hume-Campbell, Amabell, 1st Countess de Grey, 5th Baroness Lucas,
Yorke, Philip,
Yorke, Anna Maria,
Hompesch, Jacqueline Charlotte, Comtesse de,
Robinson, Frederick John,
Yorke, Philip (3rd Earl of Hardwicke),
Rumbold, George Berriman,
Reeve