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Letter from Mary Yorke to Lady Lucas, sent from Forthampton Court. Son Philip is almost recovered from his illness; it began as a rheumatic fever but changed to other complaints.

20 Mar 1813

From: 1813 To: 1813

Dr [Thomas] Waddington's lady [Anne] lost an only brother in the autumn. She has one sister who is in bad health of the nervous kind, and an old father nearly superanuated. he is very rich, and the writer assumes the daughters will inherit. All the old gentleman's business seems to devolve to Dr. Waddington, and he is soon to be very busy, was he means to sell all Mr Westwood's saleable property at Chatteris. In short, Dr Waddington cannot think of a London journey at present. Reference to 'his dear girl' [writer's granddaughter Mary Agnes Waddington?], who enjoys the society of her young friends here, particularly Miss Beauchamp. The writer sent them in her coach to a ball at Gloucester last week, with Mrs Beauchanp as chaperone. Miss Hopkinson, the sister of Lady Douglas was at the ball - she is said to be a whimsical sort of woman - the poor old parents are in very deep distress on account of the other daughter's publicity. [Reference to Sir John Douglas and his wife Charlotte, nee Hopkinson]. Reference to Lord Harrowby's motion in Parliament, and a speech made by writer's nephew Charles Philip Yorke. 'I was much obliged for the account of my poor banished cousins for I cannot help feeling for them, and the poor little boy...' [Possibly relates to Thomas Bradshaw and his wife Elizabeth Catherine, nee Cocks]. Mention of a present for 'my young woman', which should be something of the brooch or ornamental kind, as her father takes pleasure in buying books for her. He lately made her an odd present of a greenhouse, purchased from Sir Charles Nightingale, though the writer does not know how it is to be moved.

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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,
Waddington, Thomas,
Waddington, Anne,
Waddington, Mary Agnes,
Beauchamp-Proctor,
Douglas, Charlotte,
Douglas, John,
Hopkinson,
Ryder, Dudley [1st Earl of Harrowby],
Yorke, Charles Philip,
Bradshaw, Thomas,
Cocks, Elizabeth Catherine,
Bradshaw, Elizabeth Catherine,
Nightingale, Charles,
Westwood

family correspondence, illness, Chatteris, balls, greenhouses