L30/11/223/11

Letter from Jemima Pole Carew, Forthampton, to Amabel, Lady Lucas. Left Madresfield on Wednesday last after seeing many scenes and persons which brought to mind past times with a mixture of pain and pleasure not easily dismissed.

22 Aug 1803

From: 1803 To: 1803

Friends at Forthampton [James Yorke and family] remarkably well, and enjoying the improvements they have made. Stay at Forthampton unlikely to exceed a week; the writer then goes to Mrs Cocks at Highnam for a day or two, then proceeds to Castleditch, where length of stay will depend on circumstances. Not certain if a visit to Wrest will be practicable, but hopes it will be. Mention of Mrs [Agneta] Yorke's son being made secretary of state [Charles Philip Yorke]. 'At this place, I hear little of all the military preparations, but I was in the midst of it in Worcestershire, where the spirit is much alive. Ireland, for the present, appears quiet. Mr & Mrs Reginald Cocks are just come over and are now at Castleditch, so that I shall hear all about it, and as to the flame thrown upon the government, for want of vigilance, it signifies little, as long as the object of the conspiricy was defeated...' Comments about recent weather and the harvest. Mr [Reginald] Carew is in Town attending to his new duties [under-secretary of state for Home affairs, under Charles Yorke].

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Pole-Carew, Jemima,
Lucas, Amabel, Baroness,
Yorke, James,
Cocks,
Yorke, Agneta,
Yorke, Charles Philip,
Cocks, Reginald,
Carew, Reginald Pole

family correspondence, governess, weather, Forthampton, Madresfield, Wrest, Secretary of State, general politics, weather, Secretary of State