Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    L30/11/238/50
  • Title
    Letter from Katherine Gertrude Robinson, Durnford, to Lady Lucas. 'This will arrive by that more useful than genteel conveyance the 2nd post.'
  • Date free text
    29 Nov 1809
  • Production date
    From: 1809 To: 1809
  • Scope and Content
    It is the writer's intention to let the alternate weeks of her opera box till Easter....... 'the price will be regulated by the subscription, which I flatter myself will not be kept up at fifty guineas now the names of [Angelica] Catalani and [illegible] are not in the list of performers.' Comments about Lady Grantham considering the box too cold - perhaps as the season advances she will find a mild day to attend. Has been reading Mr Beachcroft's sermon on the jubilee - his parishioners desired him to print it. Mention of Mrs Eliot 'I shall be anxious to hear she is well in her bed, where she expects to be the middle of January, but more of the wise ones say sooner!' [Possibly refers to Letitia Eliot, 2nd wife of William Eliot, later 2nd Earl of St.Germans]. Al letter from Mrs Eliot reports that she was unwell at Port Eliot and Lady [Caroline] Eliot was very kind and attentive. She stayed one night at Saltram, and the visit gave mutual satisfaction; 'all the accounts of Lady B [Lady Boringdon] are much in her favour' [Frances Parker, nee Talbot had married the divorced John Parker 2nd Baron Boringdon in August 1809]. Writer will be staying at Durnford fro some time. Some venison around the end of December would be much appreciated. Details of visits after seeing Lady Lucas in Town; re-visited Cranborne, Park Place, Broadlands and Wilton House and Mrs Wyndhams at the college. Also went to a ball at Woodcote accompanied by her brother, who came for the purpose of examining old family pictures before the house is given up. Comments about the pictures. Comments about cuttent affairs '...I fear the opening of Parliamnt will be tumultuous and that we shall all be accusing each other at home instead of uniting to resist the universal foe abroad.' Pleased to hear all the Newby family are well. 'The new one I find may be expected in the spring.' [Frederick William Robinson, born April 1810].
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