L30/11/339/243a

Letter from Mary Yorke to Lady Lucas, sent from Ely. Thanks for venison. Comments about paying the gamekeeper and the cost of carriage. Mr Cambridge and his sisters are well.

7 Dec 1806

From: 1806 To: 1806

Party consisted of Ely neighbours with the addition of Lady Winterton and Lady Elizabeth Richardson her daughter, lately returned from the East Indies for her health, and Mr Keene came over on the same account. Mention of affairs in Europe; the loss of the Warren Hastings awakened feelings for Lady Elizabeth [Gwillim?], who is to return to her husband at Madras in the next ship. Her 4 children are to be left with her Mother, having suffered from the climate in Madras. Mr Keene brought over an Argus Pheasant as a present from Sir Henry and Lady Gwillim; Lady Lucas may have seen one at the museum. There are very few in the country [a species of pheasant from Southeast Asia] Mrs Baker gives a good account of Mrs Colleton. Congratulates Mr Robinson on his seat, [member of parliament for Carlow, Ireland] and the manner it was obtained for him.

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Yorke, Mary,
Maddox, Mary,
Lucas, Amabel, Baroness,
de Grey, Amabel, 1st Countess,
Cambridge,
Winterton,
Richardson, Elizabeth,
Keene,
Gwillim, Henry,
Alexander,
Colleton, Charlotte Jemima,
Robinson, Frederick John

family correspondence, venison, East Indies, gamekeeper, Madras