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L30/11/13/15
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Letter from Anne Barker, sent from London, to Amabel Hume-Campbell, Lady Polwarth. Reference to Lord Polwarth's operation and recuperation 'I grieve to hear he has suffered so much.' Recalls Lady Rivers [Penelope Pitt] suffered a similar affliction.
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2 Jul 1779
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From: 1779 To: 1779
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Writer is going tomorrow to Aston Clinton and will stay a fortnight. Is then going to [Hemel] Hempstead. The Duchess of Bedford has invited the writer to stay a night at Woburn this summer. Lord Shelburne hopes the lawyers may finbish that the wedding need not be defered longer than tomorrow seven night [marriage of William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne, later 1st Marquess of Lansdowne to Lady Louisa FitzPatrick]. His settlement is £3,000 a year, £800 pin money and £2,000 in jewels at present. The defeciency lies in providing for younger children, as he can only give £10,000 for that purpose. Reference to the writer's visit to Southill. Reference to Lady Corke [Anne Boyle, wife of Edmund Boyle, 7th Earl of Cork and Orrery and niece of John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich] 'Ever since poor Miss Rag's death, she has lived a great deal with Lord Sandwich, both in Town and country, and so has Mrs Poyntz [Isabella, sister of Lady Corke], which shows that many people fail in achieving a respectable domestic life often from unlucky accident and early bad connections.' [Lady Corke was estranged from her husband, and in 1782(?) was tried on a charge of adultery with John Charles Newby, a musician] 'Miss Gregory surely must be much pleased with her appointment and I wish ....it may make her happy. A foundling child has taken the smallpox to Fanny Coaler's [?] family; and the poor woman has fallen ill of ot herself. 'I pitied you the accident in your family extremely and we are quite sorry to think how much Mrs Box must have suffered from seeing so melancholy a scene.'
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