L30/11/224/5

Letter from Jemima Pole-Carew [daughter of Reginald and Jemima, nee Yorke] to Amabel, Lady Lucas, Tunbridge Wells. Sent from Port Eliot. Report of Mrs [Agneta] Yorke's health and spirits [following the death of her daughter, Caroline Eliot].

5 Aug 1818

From: 1818 To: 1818

The last sad dutied were performed on Monday - 'I am happy to say no one seems to have suffered by the painful exertion and that Mrs Yorke has borne it all wonderfully well.' Mrs Yorke and Miss Beauchamp set out tomorrow for Bath, but will be a week at least on the journey. The writer will go home; Mrs Carew and one one her sisters are at Antony. Papa and sister Elizabeth are with 'my poor sister' at Haines Hill till her affairs are in some train of arrangement. [refers to Charlotte Jemima Colleton, recently widowed]. Sister Amabel is with Mrs Thomas Somers Cocks [her sister Agneta].

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Pole-Carew, Jemima,
Lucas, Amabel, Baroness,
Eliot, Caroline,
Yorke, Agneta,
Beauchamp,
Pole-carew, Elizabeth Ann,
Colleton, Charles Garth,
Colleton, Charlotte Jemima,
Pole-Carew, Amabel,
Cocks, Agneta

family correspondence, CORRESPONDENCE, health, DEATH, Tunbridge Wells, Bath