L30/11/144/63

Letter from Jacqueline Charlotte Comtesse de Hompesch, to Lady Lucas. [Typed transcript available] Thanks for fruit and partridges. Writer is still in King Street, but has not been isolated as has constantly had friends in Town.

23 Sep [1816-1817]

From: 1814 To: 1814

Today the Colletons have gone to Worthing and the Champernownes go back to Devonshire tomorrow [Arthur and Louisa, nee Buller, granddaughter of James and Mary Yorke]. The Carews will soon return as they have Tyttenhanger only till the beginning of October. 'I think Mr Carew a little like one of the old patriarchs for this last child makes the 12th in number and the 10th daughter and I don't doubt that there will be many more.' [Assumed to refer to a daughter born to Reginald Pole Carew and second wife Caroline Anne, nee Lyttelton]. Mr P Yorke has not been well again - 'his life is so very precious to his family that one cannot help feeling anxious about him, for he is not strong.' Mrs Joseph Yorke is still at Forthampton. Writer has received a letter from her brother at Stralsund [Germany] - hopes the English will be left without any fighting. 'The common saying is that the red jackets can storm anything during their march..' Brother commands the 25th Regiment. [Major Vincent Willem Graaf van Hompesch b.1770, d.1839] He was at the Crown Prince of Sweden's drawing room. P.S. Has seen Mr Joseph Yorke, who reports that his brother is quite well again. [Dating note: addressee became Lady Lucas in 1816, Joseph Yorke (son of James & Mary) died 1817, Charles Garth Colleton died 1818]

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Hompesch, Jacqueline Charlotte, Comtesse de,
de Grey, Amabel, 1st Countess,
Lucas, Amabel, Baroness,
Champernowne, Louisa,
Champernowne, Arthur,
Colleton, Charles Garth,
Colleton, Charlotte Jemima,
Carew, Reginald Pole,
Pole-Carew, Caroline Ann,
Yorke, Philip,
Yorke, Joseph,
Hompesch, Vincent Willem Graaf van

personal correspondence, illness, militia