L30/11/339/226

Letter from Mary Yorke to Lady Lucas, sent from Ely. [Typed transcript available]. Writer surrounded by family; son philip, his wife and three boys in one house, the Waddingtons in another and son Joseph with his wife and children at the Palace. The visiting of cousins if a fine amusement for all, and they all rally at the central point of the writer's house.

8 Dec 1804

From: 1804 To: 1804

Would be grateful for venison. Asks if Lady Lucas still has her private box at Covent Garden and whether she went to the first night to see 'the young Roscius' [William Henry West Betty - a child actor known as "the young Roscius"]. The writer had an account of the young actor from Miss Lyttleton. Account of family members in Ireland; mention of Lord Grantham joining them after Christmas. Mention of the death of two men in Gibralter. Mr Reeve's son escaped the illness and of 22 officers that had been ill, all were recovering. [Refers to epidemic of yellow fever]

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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,
Waddington,
Yorke, Joseph,
Yorke, Catherine,
Lyttleton,
Robinson, Thomas Philip (3rd Baron Grantham),
Reeve

family correspondence, theatre, venison, Ireland, Gibralter, yellow fever