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Letter from Mary Yorke to Lady Lucas, sent from Forthampton. Would like venison about the 20th of the month; may be able to treat Lord & Lady Eliot with some, as they will visit on their way west, collecting Letty Beauchamp, who is to spend the summer with them at Port Eliot.

6 Aug 1812

From: 1812 To: 1812

Apartments for Lady Lucas and Mlle. Hompesch will be ready for their visit. Mlle. Hompesch must be terribly nervous on the declaration of war by the Americans, for though she could not obtain her interest before, her capital was safe. 'The foolish people of Tewkesbury are rejoicing over a victory in Spain which I hear has not been gained.' Mentions of the weddings of Lady Margaret Fordyce [nee Lindsay, widow of Alexander Fordyce, married Sir James Bland Burgess, 1st Baronet in September 1812] and Mrs [Caroline] Lawry [nee Golsling, widow of Rev. S. Lawry married, Hon. Basil Cochrane in Aug 1812]. Hopes 'your little boy' continues to improve in strength [believed to refer to Frederick William Robinson]. Mention of books the Travels into Persia and the Bishop of Lincoln's book; also reference to a French play.

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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,
Eliot, Caroline,
Eliot, John, 1st Earl of St.Germans,
Beauchamp, Laetitia Anne,
Hompesch, Jacqueline Charlotte, Comtesse de,
Fordyce, Margaret,
Burgess, James Bland,
Cochrane, Basil,
Lawry, Caroline,
Robinson, Frederick William

family correspondence, venison, illness, books, plays