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Letter from Jacqueline Charlotte, Comtesse de Hompesch to Lady de Grey, Wrest Park. Thanks for kind offer of partridges, which would be most acceptable.

Postmark [Aug?] 1819

From: 1819 To: 1819

Sorry to hear that Lady de Grey had been suffering from a swollen face, hopes it has not been painful. 'Last Saturday I had a letter from Mrs James Yorke giving a very good account of the way poor J. endured being told (by the newspaper) that the event had actually taken place. The had not yet received a letter to anno8unce it but its being mentioned in the newspaper left no doubt of its being really so and now I do hope poor J. will rise superior to it all for it is impossible to go on liking in that sort of way a person by whom(it is humiliating to say) she certainly was disclaimed' [Believed to refer to the marriage of John Eliot, Earl of St.Germans and Harriet Pole Carew, who married by special licence in Aug 1819]. Makes further comments and gives opinions. Mrs JamesYorke [Mary] is going to Malvern this week -earlier than usual. Mr Broome continues much the same. Reference to soldiers in the area - we have nothing here to denote mischief, but their talking about it gives a sense of danger which those in a less protected area of town have not. [Reference to security following the Peterloo Massacre]. Hopes all will go off peacefully at Westminster - 'after the letter Sir Francis Burdett has written I think he will have to answer for any tumult that may arise.' [Burdett’s response to the Peterloo massacre was to write a public letter to his constituents denouncing the authorities as murderers]. Comments about the weather and that autumn is the writer's favourite season.

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Hompesch, Jacqueline Charlotte, Comtesse de,
de Grey, Amabel, 1st Countess,
Robinson, Mary Jemima,
Eliot, John, 1st Earl of St.Germans,
Pole-Carew, Harriet,
Yorke, Mary,
Broome,
Burdett, Francis

personal correspondence, specific marriages, partridges, general politics