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Letter from Katherine Gertrude Robinson, Newby Hall, addressed to Lady Lucas, Wrest. 'Little else than my thanks to offer for all your attentions to me, and especially setting me forward on my journey...'

13 Sep 1800

From: 1800 To: 1800

Comments about the attentiveness of Lady Lucas's servants. Finds the family at Newby Hall going on much as previously. Pleased to observe Mr Thomas [Thomas Philip Robinson] disposed to like a country life, besides his sports and dogs, he has an interest in agriculture, and in the evenings reading and music. Frederick has taken a little to shooting, but with him it is an acquired taste. The day after the writer's arrival there was a trotting match between Mr Beachcroft and Frederick, which was won by the latter, and also a galloping match between John Smith and Mr Beachcrift, won by Beachcroft. There is to be a firework display next Wednesday and there is to be a grand supper. On the 23rd will go to Doncaster races, following which the writer will go to Lord Newarks [John Leslie]. Note: Thomas Philip Robinson inherited Newby following the death of William Weddell without children. Weddell died in 1892.

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Robinson, Katherine Gertrude,
Lucas, Amabel, Baroness,
Robinson, Thomas (3rd Baron Grantham),
Robinson, Frederick,
Beachcroft,
Smith, John,
Weddell, William,
Leslie, John

family correspondence, servants, Newby Hall, fireworks, horse racing, sport, dogs