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Letter from Jacqueline Charlotte, Comtesse de Hompesch, to Lady de Grey, Putney Heath. Comments about an eclipse.

Postmark 4 Dec 1826

From: 1826 To: 1826

'The play [box at theatre] has answered most satisfactorily to my wish of giving pleasure and paying for kindness received. The first night gave to the Lindsays and Thursday and Friday my brother had the use of it and took his old companions of the 25th regiment. The wife of one of them was delighted to hear all the noise (fainting) and applause produced by His Majesty's appearance and they came downstairs in time to seel Him walk to his carriage. Last night I gave my order to Lady St.Germans [Harriet Eliot] and she and the Miss Colletons were much pleased and amused.' Lady Pollington [Anne Savile] and her daughter have come from Wimpole to spend a week with Lady Elizabeth Stuart. 'My invalid is got so well that next Wednesday she is to go to pay a visit home and her sister will remain to take care of me. She is a nice, sensible good humoured young woman and very attentive to me and can read to me ..... latterly poor Elizabeth was too unwell for me to wish her to strain her lungs in my service and so I have been straining my eyes....' Pleased the accounts from Nocton are as favourable as could have been hoped . The Miss Robinson's visit will be both consoling and enlivening. [Nocton was the home of Frederick John Robinson - his daughter Eleanor Henrietta died in October 1826]

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Hompesch, Jacqueline Charlotte, Comtesse de,
de Grey, Amabel, 1st Countess,
Lindsay,
Hompesch,
Eliot, Harriet,
Colleton,
Savile, Anne [Lady Pollington],
Stuart, Elizabeth Margaret,
Robinson, Frederick John (1st Earl of Ripon),
Robinson, Eleanor Henrietta

personal correspondence, solar eclipse, theatre, illness, DEATH, Nocton