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Letter from Jacqueline Charlotte, Comtesse de Hompesch to Lady de Grey, Wrest Park. Thanks Lady de Grey for her letter.

Postmark 27 Jul 1824

From: 1824 To: 1824

Comments about the weather and how it makes one feel. Declines kind offer of venison - is eating cold chicken in this hot weather. Writer has not seen much of the Edward Street Party [Colleton family?], but hears 'he' is expected home very soon [assumed to mean Alphonse Morel de Champemont]. Lady Hardwicke 'has very wicked thoughts about the putrid fever we are told of in Rome - she thinks it was someting else - I never thought of that before but now I should wonder at nothing!' [Refernece to Charlotte Morel de Champemont's recent illness]. Lady Elizabeth Stuart did not see him [Morel de Champemont] at Paris, and is amused at him calling himself Morel le Comte. Mention of 'my boy' - Lady Elizabeth Stuart has purchased some of his drawings, and Lady Grantham wished to have three for a sovereign, and wishes him to teach her children drawing next year.

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Hompesch, Jacqueline Charlotte, Comtesse de,
de Grey, Amabel, 1st Countess,
Morel de Champemont, Alphonse Joseph Marie,
Morel de Champemont, Charlotte Jemima,
Stuart, Elizabeth

personal correspondence, drawings, weather, venison