Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    L30/11/339/293
  • Title
    Letter from Mary Yorke to Lady Lucas, sent from Forthampton. The box with the book and Lady Lucas' letter has arrived.
  • Date free text
    1 Mar 1811
  • Production date
    From: 1811 To: 1811
  • Scope and Content
    Reference to the health of the King. Grateful for invitation to stay at St. James' Square; writer hopes to set out in April and 'with your permission to having possession of what you are so good as to call "my room" .' Mention of new curtains and chair covers 'a mark of friendly attention.' Mention of current affairs. Reference to estate management - all the writer's leases end this spring - 'I owe it to those that are to come after me not to let fresh ones for some years at an inadequate rent...' Print of Kings College Chapel window offered to Lady Lucas. Writer expects a new grandchild in Gloucester Place [Catherine Harriet Yorke, daughter of Joseph and Catherine, nee Cocks?] Forthcoming marriage of Maria Cocks, daughter of the late Thomas Somers Cocks, to Rear Admiral William Hargood, who is second in command at Portsmouth. Mention of Lady Somers and her daughter in Cavendish Squire. 'Her ladyship has had a large addition to her fortune by her Father's death, Dr Nash - but I am anxious to hear what he has left to his widow, my old acquaintence; she was a Martin, sister to the old member.' [Note: Treadway Russell Nash died Jan 1811. His wife was Margaret, the daughter of John Martin of Overbury. Their daughter Margaret married John Sommers Cocks, 1st Earl Sommers in 1875] Reference to the Prince of Wales' levee; the writer thinks he performs his present part in all respects with propriety.
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