L30/11/224/6

Letter from Charlotte Jemima Pole-Carew [daughter of Reginald and Jemima, nee Yorke] to Amabel, Lady Lucas. Sent from Antony House, Plymouth Dock. [Typed transcript available]. Comments about the weather. The harvest is uncommonly promising and the corn harest will begin this week.

8 Aug [c.1802]

From: 1802 To: 1802

Mama's eyes are at last in a fair way for recovery. She consulted a physican who resides at the dock, who has forbidden walking or exercise of any kind, and excluded her eyes from any strong light. Were deprived of Mrs Barker's company, partly through the fear of travelling at the moment of elections, and partly throught the indisposition of Mr Cambridge, which put her under great anxiety. Papa is afraid he will be bored next winter by Sir F. Burdett's orations in Parliament. 'Dear little John [John Reginald Pole-Carew] is astonishingly improved since he has been here, and could not be known for the same child.' The privation from exercise and company has affected Mama's spirits, but they will be regained if her eyes recover. Papa, Jemima and the writer are going with Caroline Eliot to the election ball at Liskard on Friday. Amabel is so much of a woman as to be changing her teeth [Amabel Pole-Carew, born c. 1796].

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Pole-Carew, Charlotte Jemima,
Lucas, Amabel, Baroness,
Eliot, Caroline,
Pole-Carew, Jemima,
Barker (d),
Cambridge,
Burdett, Francis,
Pole-Carew, John Reginald,
Pole-Carew, Amabel,
Hume-Campbell, Amabel, 1st Countess de Grey, 5th Baroness Lucas

family correspondence, CORRESPONDENCE, weather, elections, physician, Plymouth