L30/11/339/241

Letter from Mary Yorke to Lady Lucas, sent from Ely House, London. [Typed transcript available]. Packing to go to Ely. Reference to funeral of Charles James Fox - 'will pass as Mr Pitt's did, I fancy, making a spectacle to the common people for a short time and then to be forgotten by them for ever.'

3 Oct 1806

From: 1806 To: 1806

Miss [Elizabeth] Manningham is no better and talks of removing to her sister at Bonnington. Mr & Mrs Collerton are lodged at 17 Brook Street and seem gay and happy. They are looking out for a house. He is to go to the West Indies at the end of the month to secure his remittances and put his estate on a proper plan for the future. He will be away about 4 months. She [Charlotte Jemima Colleton] wishes to go with him and he seems apprehensive of it for her. Reference to the purchase of a house by Jacqueline [Comtesse de Hompesch] which is not going ahead due to legal difficulties; at the moment she is stayling at Mr Bullers, but is soon removing to Wimpole. Mr & Mrs Champernowne [Arthur and Louisa, nee Buller] are in Town house hunting - they are at present at 24 Upper Berkeley Street. Before leaving town, Maria Buller 'relinquished the £1,500 per year rent charge on Sir Joseph Copley's estate - this is very handsome - but I scarcely think the general should keep any of the personals he received from her. Maria likewise offered her attentions to the Lady Sutton [nee Copley, wife of Thomas Manners-Sutton, 1st Baron Manners]but they were declined in the handsomest manner.' Mention of current affairs and Lord Lauderdale [James Maitland, 8th Earl of Lauderdale] [Note: On 2 August 1806 the earl, departed for France, invested with full powers to conclude peace, the negotiations for which had been for several weeks carried on by the Earl of Yarmouth. He and Yarmouth set about the arduous task of treating with Napoleon and Tallyrand. Yarmouth was recalled on the 14th and Lauderdale was left alone. Following the renewal of hostilities he left Paris for London on 9 October.] Gives the Bishop's views on Lord Royston's book.

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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,
Fox, Charles James,
Champernowne, Louisa,
Champernowne, Arthur,
Manningham, Elizabeth,
Colleton, Charlotte Jemima,
Colleton, Charles Garth,
Hompesch, Jacqueline Charlotte, Comtesse de,
Buller, Maria,
Copley, Joseph,
Manners-Sutton, Thomas 1st Baron Manners,
Manners-Sutton, Anne,
Copley, Anne,
Maitland, James [8th Earl of Lauderdale],
Yorke, Philip, Viscount Royston

family correspondence, funerals, West Indies, Hanover Square Brook Street, general politics