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Letter from Jacqueline Charlotte, Comtesse de Hompesch to Lady de Grey, Wrest Park. 'I have been and I am so vexed and uncomfortable at a wretched piece of gossip I have to communicate to you that I have really not had the heart to take up my pen.'

Postmark 6 Oct 1823

From: 1823 To: 1823

'I hardly know how to word the folly Mrs Colleton has been guilty of' - that on 27th of August she was married to a young French man only 24 years of age [Alphonse Joseph Marie Morel de Champemont]. 'He has no fortune, nor do we know anything of his family......the Glanvilles saw this man and did not approve of the familiar way in which she allowed him to be in her house, yet it never entered into their heads that she thought or ever could think of him in any way but as a lively good humoured boy who being at Naples without friends, it was good natured to receive. She herself seems not to have courage to write, but we understand Mr Hamilton, the English minister at Naples, has or intends to, write to Mr Carew.....' 'I don't know that I have ever been more hurt or vexed at any event not directly connected with myself as I have by this.....' Delay in Lady de Grey receiving previous letter was because the writer forgot to give it to Sir William [Kingston]. Elizabeth Carew is in a weak way ; travelling did not agree with her, and since her return she has broken a blood vessel in her foot which confines her to her sofa.

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Hompesch, Jacqueline Charlotte, Comtesse de,
de Grey, Amabel, 1st Countess,
Colleton, Charlotte Jemima,
Morel de Champemont, Charlotte Jemima,
Morel de Champemont, Alphonse Joseph Marie,
Hamilton,
Knighton, William,
Carew, Elizabeth

personal correspondence, specific marriages