Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    L30/11/238/32
  • Title
    Letter from Katherine Gertrude Robinson, Durnford, to Lady Lucas. Details of upholsterer; John Weston lives in Market Street the back of Curzon Street. He has done much work for Lord & Lady Hertford, and also in Spring Gardens. The writer is informed he is a good workman and very diligent.
  • Date free text
    31 Aug 1805
  • Production date
    From: 1805 To: 1805
  • Scope and Content
    The middle of October will suit the writer as a time to visit Wrest Park. Asks when Frederick is expected on England [Frederick John Robinson]. James arrived yesterday to open his shooting campaign tomorrow. Wheat is mostly harvested but the barley is still standing to protect the partridge and provoke the shooters. Harvest has been plentiful. 'I was glad again to visit Old Kent Road [?] no otherwise modernised than by having the addition of a certain closet with water, which our forefathers did not consider so absolutely necessary to comfort as their successors do. In all other respects, the ways of the house and the manners of the servants seems as if still influenced by the spirit of the former possessor.' 'My brother took Fanny [Frances Harris, niece of the writer] and me across a most extensive .... heath to the sea there where we had a five view of Swanage bay, Poole and the Purbeck hills. He has lately acquired a piece of ground on this heath that gives down to the sea. The young plantations propser so well on this sandy heath that a century hense it might be a pleasant spot for a ...pavilion.' Comments about other areas visits. Fanny drew some pretty views and the writer was impressed with her drawing. Mention of the death of the Duke of Gloucester [Prince William, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh]. Mention of [Joseph] Weber's history of Marie Antionette. P.S. Has received a letter from Frederick dated 26 August.
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