L30/11/339/407

Letter from Mary Yorke to Lady Lucas. [Typed transcript available]. Lady Lucas' letter contained a melancholy bill of health of many friends; dowager Lady Grantham, Lady St.German and Sir Joseph Yorke's little boy. Reference tothe 'universal state of influenza.'

3 Apr 1816

From: 1816 To: 1816

Mary Agnes Waddington accepts kind offer of a bed in Lady Lucas household on Tuesday; she brings no maid-servant, and will set out early the next day. The writer will miss her companionship when she leaves. Reference to economic circumstances - bankruptcy of banks, income tax, ability of farmers to pay rent etc. Comments about a picture seen by grandson George Waddington at Mr West the painters; it was purchased after the battle of Waterloo by Col. [James] Hay from a solicitor who found it amongst the baggage of a French officer. The painting shows a man examining the hand of a lady which is held out to him. [Believed to refer to The Arnolfini Portrait by Jan van Eyck.]

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Yorke, Mary,
Maddox, Mary,
Lucas, Amabel, Baroness,
de Grey, Amabel, 1st Countess,
Waddington, Mary Agnes,
Waddington, George,
West, Benjamin,
Hay, James

family correspondence, paintings, influenza, servants, banks