L30/11/144/13

Letter from Jacqueline Charlotte, Comtesse de Hompesch to Lady de Grey, Wrest Park. Hopes all were well when Lady de Grey visited Wimpole. Asks what Lady de Grey thinks of the Princess of Wales. 'Mrs Colleton is rather wickedly amused at Miss Garth being in this scrape.'

Postmark 17 Aug 1819

From: 1819 To: 1819

Mrs Colleton has been at Aldernam, but did not enjoy the swarms of gnats and wasps. Baby, as they call her, was eaten by them and so disfigured that Mrs Colleton had to white wash her with chalk and water, which has a very beneficial effect. Comments about the escapades of the Colleton children. Mrs Colleton is not at Edward Street preparing to start out to Antony. Sir Charles Pole and his daughter went there last week to be present at the marriage [of John Eliot 1st Earl of St.Germans and Harriet Pole-Carew]. Jemima [Pole-Carew] is still at Eastnor, but hope to go to Forthampton for some days just to get over the first announcement of the event. From the beginning of September she hopes to get to the Thomas Cocks's at Blackheath and so be quite out of the way. The Dowager Lady Somers has gone to Weymouth with her grandson Henry Cocks and Mr James Cocks.

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Hompesch, Jacqueline Charlotte, Comtesse de,
de Grey, Amabel, 1st Countess,
Eliot, John, 1st Earl of St.Germans,
Pole-Carew, Harriet,
Pole, Charles,
Pole-Carew, Jemima,
Cocks, Thomas,
Colleton, Charlotte Jemima,
Somers,
Cocks, James,
Cocks, Henry,
Caroline of Brunswick, Princess of Wales

personal correspondence, specific marriages