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Letter from Mary Yorke to Lady de Grey. Comments about November in London and the actress Miss Kitty.

24 Nov 1822

From: 1822 To: 1822

Attention in Forthampton is taken up by the building of a bridge over the Severn, either near Mr Dowdeswell's ferry, the writer's ferry, or at the Haw Ferry. The Tewkesbury people are beginning a subscription of their own to have a bridge built at the further end of their town. The landowners are against the Haw Bridge option because the road for half a mile must be raised over some very low ground fro carriages to pass in flood times. This causeway raised on small arches would affect the meadows for a length of time by shutting up the water. The landowners therefore mean to oppose it when the Bill is applied for in parliament. Reference to the placing of Frances Cocks, [daughter of Philip James Cocks and his wife Frances], with Mr & Mrs Thomas Waddington. 'The offer was very kind, but the poor mother could hardly bring herself to accept it till she reflected on the ultimate good it might do to her child - a strong sense therefore of duty at last got the better and I hear the little girl is very happy with her cousin.' Mention of the illness of Eleanor [Eleanor Henrietta Robinson] - hopes the bilious attack is now over. 'If is is proved the necessity of caution to so young a dear child being placed in the crib, and there to remain upon its backfor weeks and months it may have proved a lucky circumstance.' Compares with treatment of Miss Plumptre - 'Miss Plumptre's disorder seems to have arisen from a very different cause, a fall, whih confined her to her couch for some time.' It was her hips that were most affected. She always feels relief by caustics. She may occasionally be visited by bile, but none of the Plumptres are of bilious habits. Agneta Beauchamp, who is now released, loos well, but says she has gone hrough more than she could repeat if necessary during this formidable remedy. Miss Beauchamp is really going to be married to a worthy clergyman and man of fortune. He is aged about 40; she is 28. The met last year at Mrs Broomes. [Letitia Anne Beauchamp, daughter of William Henry Beauchamp and niece of Sir Thomas Beauchamp-Proctor, married Rev. Charles Dunne, rector of Earls Croome, Worcestershire.]

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Yorke, Mary,
Maddox, Mary,
Lucas, Amabel, Baroness,
de Grey, Amabel, 1st Countess,
Cocks, Frances,
Cocks, Philip James,
Waddington, Thomas,
Robinson, Eleanor Henrietta,
Plumptre,
Beauchamp, Agneta,
Beauchamp, Laetitia Anne,
Dunne, Charles,
Beauchamp, William Henry,
Beauchamp-Proctor, Thomas

family correspondence, general bridges, River Severn, illness, specific marriages