Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    L30/11/144/36
  • Title
    Letter from Jacqueline Charlotte, Comtesse de Hompesch to Lady de Grey, Wrest Park. Thanks for 'the play', which is particularly acceptable as the writer has so many friends in Town at present.
  • Date free text
    Postmark Oct 1823
  • Production date
    From: 1823 To: 1823
  • Scope and Content
    Has been to Drury Lane with the Antrobus's but prefers Covent Garden and the safe ingress and egress to Lady De Grey's box - 'in itself a great recommendation to my fear of fire.' Describes access to the box at Drury Lane, and the smell from the large fires in the stoves lit to dry the damp walls which are newly plastered. 'Elliston will go on taking the parts of lovers which do not suit him at all for he is grown old and stiff..' Agrees with all Lady de grey says about Mrs Colleton [now Mrs Morel de Champemont]. Reference to Floresi[?] - 'all her [Mrs Colleton's?] freinds regret she did not take him since she was determined or fated to marry so young a man for he really seems full of noble and generous sentiments and tho' he is much hurt at what she has done he is still full of friendly feelings towards her and anxious that everything should be done to save her from the misery of being completely in this mans' power and he has been warning her sisters against his (Morel's) connections for he says the French revolutionaries are of a very different description to his carbonari friends who are all honourable men of high rank in their own country...' Writer considers that now the friendship with Floresi is at an end, Floresi will be more likely to be in favour again with his father. Floresi has gone to Harlow, as could not endure to remain any longer in Edward Street.. He was the only person Mrs Colleton wrote to immediately [after her marriage] but it was so strange a letter that it almost distracted the poor man. Mr Carew has written to Mr Hamilton the English minister at Naples in hopes of hearing what that man Morel really is. James Yorke has been in London, alone.
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