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Letter from Mary Yorke to Lady Lucas, sent from London. London friends preparing for Vauxhall fete; everyone is going but Mlle. Hompesch, who thinks it is too much trouble.

20 Jul 1813

From: 1813 To: 1813

Reference to Mlle. Hompesch's financial situation, selling stocks to pay off a debt of her brothers. The Carew family have been in great distress - the elder son's affairs could no longer be kept from the father, who was naturally very much agitated and provoked, but has consented to pay the debts, though seems to insinuate that he has distressed himself so much that he must either sell his house in Town or give up the country, the last measure (as best suiting his wife's situation), is determined upon, and they are to remain in London all year - the young folks are packed off to her father's in the west. [Believed to relate to debts of Joseph Pole-Carew]. The Hardwickes leave London after the fete for Malvern and Castleditch. The writer hopes to be at Forthampton by the first of August, but has not yet seen all her men of business. Thanks for venison. 'Sir Gilbert has put his sister Grosvenor into my house - but I could not very well afford to live in it myself so do not much care.' [Refers to Sir Gilbert Heathcote, 4th baronet and his sister Elizabeth, wife of Thomas Grosvenor].

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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,
Hompesch, Jacqueline Charlotte, Comtesse de,
Heathcote, Gilbert,
Grosvenor, Elizabeth,
Grosvenor, Thomas,
Pole-Carew, Joseph

family correspondence, fetes, debt