L30/11/144/44

Letter from Jacqueline Charlotte, Comtesse de Hompesch to Lady de Grey, Wrest Park. Comments about the weather and avoiding thunderstorms. The writer was unwell during the hot weather, but it seems to have cured the violent thirst she had suffered for over twelve months.

Postmark 15 Aug 1824[?]

From: 1824 To: 1824

Writer has received taking leave visits from Charlotte Morel de Champemont and the Countess of St Germans [Harriet Eliot, nee Carew] - they are all settled at Antony till October, when they will settle in Town for the winter. Mrs Cocks is still at Camden Hill. Writer has heard from Elizabeth Carew at Brighton - she feels more comfortable and her foot is rather better on the whole, but as useless as ever. Philip Yorke has arrived in Portman Street and feels 'snug comfortable in his little back room surrounded by his books, but when the pleasure of being got home and away from Ireland is gone off I am afraid he will feel it rather dull to be alone in London.' Comments about the house full that Mr Carew has - the Morel de Champemonts, three Colleton children with their governess, the Irish nurse and baby Alphonse Morel de Champemont, as well as the Countess of St Germans and her attendants, and now the Dowager Lady Somers intends to add to the number. The writer wonders that he invited so many at once when he claims to be very poor. The Hugh Lindsays are in a state of quarantine as their butler has scarlet fever.

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Hompesch, Jacqueline Charlotte, Comtesse de,
de Grey, Amabel, 1st Countess,
Morel de Champemont, Charlotte Jemima,
Eliot, Harriet,
Cocks,
Carew, Elizabeth,
Yorke, Philip,
Carew,
Colleton,
Morel de Champemont, Alphonse Charles,
Lindsay, Hugh

personal correspondence, weather, scarlet fever