L30/11/339/487a

Letter from Mary Yorke to Lady de Grey, sent from Horkesley Park. Arrived at Horkesley yesterday. Lady de Grey's great kindness towards Anna Maria Yorke and family.

Saturday; No date [1819?]

From: 1819 To: 1819

Grorge Waddington and his lady will arrive on Tuesday for a stay of 2 or 3 days. Mention of approaching nuptials in the family and of Harriet Carew [Harriet Pole Carew married the widowed John Eliot, Lord St, Germans in 1819]. Suggestion that a previous admirer of Harriet was John Somers Cocks, who subsequently married Lady Caroline Yorke. Description of the countryside in the area. Comments relating to whether acknowledgment was paid to Lady de Grey's gamekeeper for venison sent to Forthampton last summer. Seeks permission to show Mr Ward Lady de Grey's letter on the subject of Mrs Sherwood's book ['An Explanation of the Church Catechism']. Reference to three weeks spent under Lady de Grey's roof.

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Yorke, Mary,
Maddox, Mary,
Lucas, Amabel, Baroness,
de Grey, Amabel, 1st Countess,
Yorke, Anna Maria,
Eliot, John, 1st Earl of St.Germans,
Pole-Carew, Harriet,
Waddington, George,
Somers-Cocks, John [2nd Earl Somers],
Yorke, Caroline,
Ward,
Sherwood

family correspondence, specific marriages, doctrine, gamekeeper