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Letter from Jacqueline Charlotte, Comtesse de Hompesch to Lady de Grey, Wrest Park. Thanks for game; will have some of the hare today.

Postmark 16 Sep 1819

From: 1819 To: 1819

Lady Hardwicke and Lady Pollington have been detained in Town on account of Caroline Cocks, who has suffered from being obliged to give up nursing [her baby], and has had 'a gathering' which was lanced and caused her much pain. Now she is almost well and the child perfectly recovered. 'Lord Somers ought to be very grateful to Sir William Knighton for having saved the like of his future heir [Charles Somers Somers-Cocks]. Account in the newspaper of Mrs [Caroline?] Carew's death in France. 'I cannot believe it to be true. It says this most amiable lady was embalmed and lay in state in a pavilion hung with black..... it strikes me as very likely to have been written by her own self. I could certainly conceive her doing such a thing - yet after all the poor creature may be dead, but the particulars mentiond cannot be true, for they had hardly a sixpence between them.' 'I have had a very satisfactory letter from the new countess, they have been at their first dinner at Lord Bathurst's where everyone was kind, civil and pleasing to her.' [Possibly refers to Harriet Pole-Carew, who married John Eliot in 1819]. Mrs James Yorke [Mary] is at now at Eastnor Castle. Marianne is with her. 'They say Mary B [Beauchamp] cannot recover and they are all goung immediately to Devonshire.' The Clives are in Town for the winter.

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Hompesch, Jacqueline Charlotte, Comtesse de,
de Grey, Amabel, 1st Countess,
Cocks, Caroline,
Yorke, Elizabeth Scott,
Savile, Anne [Lady Pollington],
Knighton, William,
Somers-Cocks, Charles Somers,
Cocks, John Sommers, 1st Earl Somers,
Pole-Carew, Caroline,
Pole-Carew, Harriet,
Eliot, John, 1st Earl of St.Germans,
Yorke, Mary,
Beauchamp, Mary,
Clive

personal correspondence, Eastnor Castle