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Letter from Sophia Fielding, Portsmouth to Amabel Hume-Campbell, Lady Polwarth. [Typed transcript available]. Writer refers to her anxiety in the midst of the general joy of the 'glorious occasion.' However, has now received comfort in a letter from her son, on board Lord Hugh Seymour's ship the Leviathan. [French Revolutionary Wars].

20 Jun 1794

From: 1794 To: 1794

Reference to the death of Philip Robinson, son of Lady Grantham - 'so fine and promising a boy'. Mention of the reception given to Lord Howe when he landed at Portsmouth.* Reference to the son of Lord Tankerville [Charles Bennet, 4th Earl of Tankerville]; probably Captain Hon. John Astley Bennet. * Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe was given command of the Channel Fleet in 1793.In command of a British fleet of twenty-two ships he defeated a fleet of twenty-five French ships, which had been escorting a grain convoy, capturing seven of the enemy ships, at the Glorious First of June in June 1794.

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Feilding, Sophia,
Hume-Campbell, Amabel, 1st Countess de Grey, 5th Baroness Lucas,
Lucas, Amabel, Baroness,
Seymour, Hugh,
Robinson, Philip,
Howe, Richard, 1st Earl Howe,
Bennet, Charles [4th Earl of Tankerville],
Bennet, John Astley,
Feilding, Charles

personal correspondence, Portsmouth, French Revolutionary Wars