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Letter from Anne Barker, sent from Hemel Hempstead, to Amabel Hume-Campbell, Lady Polwarth. Obliged to Lady Polwarth for her 'civilities to my family.'

8 Apr 1794

From: 1794 To: 1794

Family are to leave the writer's house next week, and the writer proposes going to it the last week of this month. She will stay till the beginning of June, then she is going to her granddaughters, at the invitation of General Lake. Mention of the weather, flowers and books, including a French novel Adèle de Sénanges by Madame de Souza. Reports about Lady [Mary] Cadogan. [Tried for adultery with the Rev. Cooper, and subsequently divorced]

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Barker, Anne,
Hume-Campbell, Amabel, 1st Countess de Grey, 5th Baroness Lucas,
Lake, Gerard, 1st Viscount Lake,
Cadogan, Mary,
Cooper

family correspondence, CORRESPONDENCE, adultery, weather, flowers, books, divorce