L30/11/13/10

Letter from Anne Barker, sent from London, to Amabel Hume-Campbell, Lady Polwarth. [Typed transcript available]. Frank [grandson Francis Gerard Lake] has been very ill with a feverish compliant, and still has a cough. Maria [Anna Maria Lake] coughs too, and so does the whole nursery.

13 Feb 1779

From: 1779 To: 1779

Good accounts from Wrest brought by Dr Fordyce and others. Has received a letter from Lady Rivers, who considers Nice a very horrid dull place, though praises the cleanliness of the air. Relates other coments from Lady Rivers letter including the opera. 'She appears content enough...' Comments about riots and mobs in London. 'We have been illuminated two evenings, and tha same is expected again tonight, the effect is beautiful Her majesty is expected hourly to be brought to bed [reference to birth of Prince Octavius, son of George III and Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz]. Lady Georgina Smith 'is come before her time' in Yorkshire. Comments about the opera in London. Mention of the writer's sister, Elizabeth Hume-Campbell. Reference to a masquerade attended by the writer. Captain Thomas Gore is to be married to a Miss Thorp.

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Barker, Anne,
Hume-Campbell, Amabell, 1st Countess de Grey, 5th Baroness Lucas,
Lake, Francis Gerard,
Lake, Anna Maria,
Rivers,
Prince Octavius,
Thorp,
Gore, Thomas,
Smith, Georgina,
Hume-Campbell, Elizabeth

family correspondence, illness, Nice, rioting, opera