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Letter from Mary Yorke to Lady de Grey, sent from Forthampton. Pleased to hear of Lady de Grey's safe arrival at Wrest. Thanks for gift of a card box.

2 Sep 1818

From: 1818 To: 1818

Lady C. Yorke was here during the Hereford Races. Writer thought she appeared weak and thin. Accepts kind offer of venison as grandsons Philip James Yorke and John Thomas Waddington are expected. Will invite Captain Standon of the Duke of Gloucester's Regiment, now at Cheltenham to meet them. This, with some young ladies, will make a good dinner party. Asks Lady de Grey to tell her maid Hunter that the writer's maid Rose visited Mrs Kersley recently and found her well, but low [following the suicide of her husband]. Lady Caroline Cocks has been staying. She went to visit Mrs Joseph Yorke [Catherine], but after sitting there for over an hour, came away without seeing her. The next day she was to dine with the writer, but did not come in until the first course was gone. Joseph sat at the bottom of the table and endeavoured to keep all in good humour. Joseph was a favourite with Lady Caroline as he played with her little girl, carrying her about and pulling her in a go-cart. Comments about the proposed bridge; neighbour General Dowdeswell is a reserved man who keeps no company and considers a bridge might mean his constituents from Tewkesbury coming to him in a few minutes at all hours and in all states, drunk and sober.

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Yorke, Mary,
Maddox, Mary,
Lucas, Amabel, Baroness,
de Grey, Amabel, 1st Countess,
Yorke, Philip James,
Waddington, John Thomas,
Standon,
Kersley,
Hunter,
Cocks, Caroline,
Yorke, Catherine,
Yorke, Joseph,
Dowdeswell

family correspondence, venison, maid, general bridges