L30/11/223/4

Letter from Jemima Pole Carew, Sunning Hill, to Amabel, Lady Lucas, Wrest. [Typed transcript available] Writer's health has improved in many respects, and hopes to progress to something like strength.

6 Sep 1798

From: 1798 To: 1798

Fears Mr [Reginald] carew will will not return in time for a visit to Wrest; he has not yet alluded to any intention of leaving Antony. If newspaper accounts are to be relied on, his residence with his troops must a present be necessary. 'Some of my neighbours here tell me that I have been preparing myself to act as Mr Carew's aide de camp, for I have attended most of the reviews with which this neighbourhood has been amused. Our camp is now cleared on His Majesty's departure, and we are all returned to our usual quietness.' Mention of 6 daughters waiting at the cottage gate to see their Majesties pass. Mrs Charles Yorke [Harriet] stayed one night at Thorpe on her way to Wrest Park, where she is to visit Lady Cooke. Thanks for offer of venison, which is accepted. Son Joe is with his father in Cornwall. 'I hope Mrs Barker is more at ease respecting her granddaughters than it was possible to be upon the first landing of the French.' 'We wait for the acounts of Lord Cornwallis with great impatience. As to those from the Mediterranean I believe all the fleets are gone to the bottom together.'

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Pole-Carew, Jemima,
Lucas, Amabel, Baroness,
Pole-Carew, Reginald,
Yorke, Harriet,
Cooke,
Pole-Carew, Joseph,
Barker (d),
Cornwallis

family correspondence, militia, venison, Napoleonic Wars