L30/11/339/546

Letter from Mary Yorke to Lady de Grey, sent from Malvern. Comments about the weather which has almost entirely destroyed the wheat harvest. Earl Somers is concerned, as his tenants did not pay well before this calamity.

14 Sep 1821

From: 1821 To: 1821

Mrs Broome is visiting Cowes, Isle of White, and has seen Lord & Lady Grantham; reports that her Ladyship looks very large in the family way. [Henrietta Frances Robinson gave birth to a still-born son 30th October 1821]. Problems of obtaining accommodation in Malvern. Lady Buckingham was much better for taking the Malvern waters.; her complaint was something in her throat. Family connections of 'Webster Wederbourne' [Sir James Webster-Wedderburn]; his mother in law is Lady John Somerset and her mother is Lady Mountmorris [Sarah Annesley]. Writer sees from the papers that Webster-Wedderburn was acquited last month at Paris [case related to his wounding a servant in self defence]. Anecdote from Lady Caledon at Dublin. In a week, the writer goes to Eastnor on her way back to Forthampton, merely to call for grandchildren Henrietta Yorke [eldest daughter of Philip & Anna Maria Yorke], and one of her brothers, who are coming to stay at Forthampton. Subscriptions for a poor clergyman named Gilpin, nephew of [William Gilpin] the author of 'The Tour'. Details of Gilpin's plight transcribed from Anna Maria Yorke's letter: he has had to relinquish a good curacy in Essex due to a paralytic stroke. He has a wife and 5 children.

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Yorke, Mary,
Maddox, Mary,
Lucas, Amabel, Baroness,
de Grey, Amabel, 1st Countess,
Robinson, Henrietta Frances,
Webster-Wedderburn, James,
Alexander, Catherine Freeman [Lady Caledon],
Yorke, Henrietta,
Gilpin,
Gilpin, William

family correspondence, weather, Cowes, charity