Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    L30/11/144/41
  • Title
    Letter from Jacqueline Charlotte, Comtesse de Hompesch to Lady de Grey, Wrest Park. Thanks for partridges and box at Covent Garden, which is always particularly agreeable. Thomas Cocks is to have the use if it tonight.
  • Date free text
    Postmark 27 Sep 1824
  • Production date
    From: 1824 To: 1824
  • Scope and Content
    The writer is going on Wednesday with the Hugh Lindsays. Mrs J Cocks and Co. are still at Brighton. The eldest boy's gland in no better and they do not give hopes of a speedy sure. She thinks of leaving him there in the care of a clergyman who takes in a few boys to educate in his leisure hours. Elizabeth Carew has been under the care of Mohamet and she now walks a little and with surprising ease after so long a disuse of her foot. Has heard from Antony that Mrs Colleton [now Charlotte Jemima Morel de Champemont] was very mush fatigued by her journey there and has been very unwell and weak, but is better now and will soon begin her journey home in easy stages. 'Poor Floresi! There is no end to his sorrows; he came to me two days ago in deep black and looking dreadfully ill in consequence of having heard of the death of one of his sisters. It seems she was a person they all rather looked up to, a married woman who was coming to live with their father to assist him in taking care of all his other children and of himself and now that she is gone the father is in desperation and has written a most melancholy letter hinting at the necessity of now seeking for a female companion to assist him in the arduous task of managing his family, but he does not make it clear if he means to take a governess or a wife. Poor Floresi fears the latter...' The worry and grief brought back all his stomach aches and fever, though he is better now and very much taken up with his employment about the mines, and in about six weeks will have to go to Wales to make plans of the mines there. Mention of William Knighton - about a month ago he was away on some secret mission.
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