The Mary Hamilton Papers : Letter from Lady Frances Harpur (née Greville) to Mary Hamilton

Harpur (née Greville), Frances Elizabeth

The Mary Hamilton Papers

<p style='text-align: justify;'>Letter from Lady Frances Harpur to Mary Hamilton, relating to the death of Lady Aldborough and the health of the King. Harpur asks if it is true as she reads in the papers, that Lady Aldborough has died [Hamilton's cousin and the daughter of Frederick Hamilton]. She writes that she does not want to put on mourning until she has heard from Hamilton. Harpur also writes of the King's poor state of health and on the unlikelihood of it improving.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Dated at Lavington House, [Sussex].</p>

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