L30/11/339/348

Letter from Mary Yorke to Lady Lucas. Thanks for making enquiries about Mrs Beauchamp's son [Christopher]; for French volumes - 'Miss Broome's eyes glistened when she saw them' and for the map.

3 Feb 1814

From: 1814 To: 1814

'The French troops must be paid. If there is a bankructcy then perforce Bonaparte must, I should suppose, have a peace with England as well as her allies.' The poor of the writer's and neighbouring parishes are in great distress from the want of firing; no coal to be had till the Severn becomes navigable. The writer can furnish them with wood, but there is none ready cut, and the green wood will not burn. Concern about Agneta Yorke, who fell in her room and bruised herself.

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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, Agneta,
Beauchamp-Proctor, Christopher

family correspondence, Napoleonic Wars, illness, POVERTY, charity