L30/11/144/62

Letter from Jacqueline Charlotte Comtesse de Hompesch, to Lady Lucas, Wrest Park. Intended marriage of Mr Robinson [Frederick John Robinson's marriage to Lady Sarah Albona Louisa Hobart. Mr Hugh Lindsay knows the lady particularly as she came over in his ship from India.

5 Aug [No year -1814]

From: 1814 To: 1814

Has been to the opera with Lady [Caroline] Eliot, who left the writer her box and tickets. Has also been at Vauxhall and last Monday had sight of all that was to be seen in both parks from the roof of Mr Antrobus's house. The temple was beautiful and the smoke which concealed it for some time had a most wonderful and quite magical effect, though two poor men having lost their lives in the burning of the pagoda is a melancholy catastrophe. Writer did not think the fireworks were as good as those at Vauxhall. [Relates to the grand national jubilee of 1st August 1814 which was both the anniversary of the Battle of the Nile and the centenary of the ascension to the throne of the Hanoverian monarchs; to celebrate these and the signing of the Treaty of Paris, the day was chosen for a grand national Jubilee.] Reference to forthcoming 4th marriage of William Eliot, 2nd Earl of Saint Germans to Miss Susan Mordaunt, sister of Sir Charles Mordaunt. She is aged 35. [Married September 1814] The Joseph Yorkes are expected today; the Carews have left. Thanks for venison.

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Hompesch, Jacqueline Charlotte, Comtesse de,
de Grey, Amabel, 1st Countess,
Hume-Campbell, Amabel, 1st Countess de Grey, 5th Baroness Lucas,
Lucas, Amabel, Baroness,
Robinson, Frederick John,
Hobart, Sarah Albinia Louisa,
Lindsay, Hugh,
Eliot, Caroline,
Antrobus,
Eliot, William,
Mordaunt, Susan,
Yorke, Joseph,
Carew

personal correspondence, CORRESPONDENCE, marriages, opera, Vauxhall, jubilees, fireworks, venison