L30/11/13/9

Letter from Anne Barker, sent from Curzon Street, to Amabel Hume-Campbell, Lady Polwarth. Lady Marchmont is not arriving today as expected as she is ill, and unfit for any excursion.

30 Dec 1778

From: 1778 To: 1778

Mention of Miss Gregory, who is staying at Wrest. Received a letter from Madame De Laval informing of the death of her father. Miss [Harriot] Wrottesley is to be married to Colonel [William] Gardiner [married 9 Jan 1779]. Miss Ravenscroft married and has been abroad, but recently returned to London - the writer has enjoyed renewing the acquaintance. She is six months with child. Sir John Sebright wrote to inform that his wife [Sarah] was taken to bed of a daughter [Mary Ann Saunders Sebright, baptised Jan 1779 Flamstead, Hertfordshire]. Birth of Marie Thérèse of France. 'The crowd pressed eve into her bedchamber ... and cruelly fed[?] her with a noise and violence very unbecoming the occasion that is was only a daughter'

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Barker, Anne,
Hume-Campbell, Amabell, 1st Countess de Grey, 5th Baroness Lucas,
Hume-Campbell, Elizabeth,
Gregory,
de Laval,
Gardiner, William,
Wrottesley, Harriot,
Ravenscroft,
Sebright, John,
Sebright, Sarah,
Sebright, Mary Ann Saunders,
Marie Thérèse Charlotte [Duchess of Angoulême]

family correspondence, DEATH, specific marriages