L30/11/339/347

Letter from Mary Yorke to Lady Lucas. Reference to the dangers and distresses Mr Robinson was exposed to, which the writer had not fully appreciated.

19 Jan 1814

From: 1814 To: 1814

The writer walks or drives out every day, and on Thursday last was tempted by some niighbours to cross the river Severn on foot. It has for some time been completely frozen, and has become the fashionable promenade for the Tewkesbury ladies. Mrs Beauchap has not heard from her son Christopher in the 'Africania' - he was coasting near Ceylon when he wrote above twelve months ago. Writer has begun to read the 9th report of the Bible Society; notices with pleasure the number of books sent to the above island. Wonders if anything has been done there to establish a protestant church. Mention of negoatiations with the Archbishop of Canterbury and 'a certain friend of mine not 100 miles from St. James' Square' about prints or paintings to be engraved from and introduced into a new edition of the Bible for the Bible Society. Mention of the potential for peace. The character of Stodard the soldier of one of the labourers. Mrs Joseph Yorke is unwell and complains of a weakness in her back. Health of various family members.

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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,
Robinson,
Beauchamp-Proctor, Christopher,
Stodard,
Yorke, Catherine

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