L30/11/144/37

Letter from Jacqueline Charlotte, Comtesse de Hompesch to Lady de Grey, Wrest Park. Expresses thanks for giving the theatre box to the writer for a whole week. It has given great pleasure to Champernowne and Buller children [grandchildren of Mary Yorke].

Dec 1823

From: 1823 To: 1823

Gave the box one night to the Cocks's, but 'she is so given to faint just now that it made her afraid to venture and he forgot the day and had invited some men to dinner so it ended in none of them going.' Writer went with Mrs [Louisa] Champernowne. Describes the production. The Waddington's are home and Mrs [Jane]Waddington has been to visit; she and the 'Travellers Fireside' book that Lady de Grey gave the writer and Mrs Waddington completely agree in their description of the Convent of St Bernard [Switzerland], where Mrs Waddington sang a duet with one of the monks. The dogs delighted the travellers, and they would have like to have brought one home. Good accounts of the health of Joseph Yorke. At last a letter has been received from one of the Colleton girls 'and a few lines from Madame herself'. 'The girl expresses her dislike to the thing...' [the marriage of her widowed mother to Alphonse Morel de Champemont]. Madame [harlotte de Champemont] had been in bed for a week with a sore throat and fever, and then had a relapse. She says that Monsieur is full of attentions to her and that all she sees in him contradicts any bad reports against him. Pleased that Lady de Grey is coming to Town soon, and looks forward to seeing her. Mrs Hicks of Somerset Street has given birth to a son.

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Hompesch, Jacqueline Charlotte, Comtesse de,
de Grey, Amabel, 1st Countess,
Champernowne,
Champernowne, Louisa,
Buller,
Waddington, Jane,
Yorke, Joseph,
Morel de Champemont, Charlotte Jemima,
Colleton, Charlotte Jemima,
Morel de Champemont, Alphonse Joseph Marie,
Hicks

personal correspondence, theatre, illness, dogs, MARRIAGE, Switzerland