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Letter from Mary Yorke to Lady Lucas, sent Forthampton. Thanks for letter and the drawing Lord Grantham has made of his parsonage house, which is inclined to be approved. Their own parsonage must be build on a more reduced plan.

2 Oct 1813

From: 1813 To: 1813

Visited Lord & Lady Hardwicke before they returned to Wimpole. Met Lady Charlotte Durham and her husband, travelling to Portsmouth where he was to set sail for his station. He entertained with anecdotes from aboard his ship, particularly a French play he had recently had acted. Eastnor Castle is the great subject of conversation; when the building and the water is finished, which is to be done by flooding the valley (as at Blenheim though not on so large a scale), it will be one of the finest seats in England. In the meantime, the expense is immense; [Robert] Smirke would not enter into a contract and Lady Hardwicke thinks Lord Somers, rich as he is, will run himself aground. Reference to the fortune of John Somers [John Somers-Cocks, later 2nd Earl Somers, who married Caroline Harriet Yorke, daughter of Philip Yorke, 3rd Earl Hardwicke in February 1815.]

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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,
Durham, Charlotte,
Durham, Philip Charles Calderwood Henderson,
Smirke, Robert,
Cocks, John Sommers, 1st Earl Somers,
Yorke, Elizabeth,
Somers-Cocks, John [2nd Earl Somers],
Yorke, Caroline

family correspondence, Eastnor, parsonages