| Description | Includes letters from: Thomas West, St Mary Rill; Beachcroft, Seward and West, London; D Legard, Bath, York and Ganton (8 pieces); Francis Legard, York (10 pieces); John Graves, York (3 pieces); W Stables, York (5 pieces); Mathew St Quintin, York (6 pieces); M Stow, Kilnwick (5 pieces), S Bland, Beverley and Anthony Todd, General Post Office (copies); Dorothy Wright, York (3 pieces); Nathaniel Maister, Hu11 (6 pieces); Samuel Bland, Beverley (2 pieces); W Hardwick, West Cowes, Isle of Wight; William Mosey, Lund; J Stone, Bream's Buildings, Chancery Lane (3 pieces); Robert Hildyard, Winestead (6 pieces); John Grimston, Eton (2 pieces). William J Meeke, 'Niger', Spithead; Robert Appleton, Beverley (3 pieces); Henry Maister, Hull; Ruth Holloway, Crown and Anchor, London; Henry Smith, York; R Creyk, London (2 pieces); Thomas Wrightson, Beverley; Mattw. Remington, Beverley (2 pieces); G Strickland, Boynton (3 pieces); Kirby and Smith, Hull; Richard Rennards, Bull; Mr Territt, Bainton; R Ebor, Archbishop of York, Brodsworth; John Boydell, Cheapside; EH Ellerker, Risby; W Anderson; C Keld, Beverley (2 pieces); W Lindley (for Mr Carr), York; John Wilson, London. Francis Best, York; W Wardell, London; Thomas Grimston, Barrow (5 pieces); Jonathan Man, York; Jane Grimston, York (2 pieces); Fr. Boynton, Beverley and Scarborough (3 pieces); Josuiah Simpson, Doctors Commons; T Robinson; Michael Ake, Garton; John Graham, Newcastle; H Duncombe, Scarborough; Gregory Cooper, Tunbridge Wells; John Carr, York; William Whately (3 pieces); William Riggetson, Hawkshead; Arthur Maister, Hull (2 pieces); S Mills, Norbury (2 pieces) F Grimston; J Dealtry, York; Josuiah Wordsworth, Wadsworth (2 pieces); G Crampton, Harrow (2 pieces); Edwardwd Cottrell, Philada; Lucy Osbaldeston, Hutton Bushell; Mary Hardwick, Cowes, Isle of Wight; Jerom Dring, York; G Hotham, Beverley. Concerning: financial affairs; higher prices in Bath than London; estate (Birkby; Lund; Beverley; Garton; Cawkeld; Kilnwick); dispute over payment to postmaster of Beverley for delivery of letters. (Feb 1769); account of yearly expenses of Beverley Post Office; social and family affairs; Mr Reeve the Quaker's 'whimsical, uncommon and pretty place' near Bristol-'towers built of shining copper one intermixed with Bath stone', (25 Feb 1769); will of Admiral Medley; Chancel of Lund church finished, (7 Mar 1769); fire at Covent Garden; riot at St James's, (26 Mar 1769) case relating to use of a bridge belonging to Sir Digby Legard; right of way at Hutton Bushell, (9 Apr 1769) and (3 Apr 1769); account for goods bought from Mr Platt, cabinetmaker, London, Parker, statuary, and Gossett (medallion), (10 Apr 1769) 'An ingenious man in London who has found out a secret to make Carriages go without horses......I'll not sell my horses yet'; horses; political matters; exhibition of Society of Artists, London: description of two paintings by Wright of Derby and Zoffany, (11 May 1769) beauty of River Wye and surrounding district, (27 May 1769); furniture from Henry Smith, York; accounts for locks, bells and repairs to house in Beverley; collection for sufferers by a fire at Walkington, (18 Jun 1769); dispute between Paul Woolas of Ellerker and his father, now living in Hull, over a financial matter; books and prints; improvements at Kilnwick Hall (Carr); 'Extraordinary case of a man in (Newcastle) Infirmary...afflicted with so violent an Hickup as to be heard...two miles from his own house before he came into the Infirmary', (3 Sep 1769); appointment of waiter and searcher for Dominica (Henry Thomasrnton?); 'Many ships of the line sailing to...attack Constantinople'; 20 and a half tons of slate purchased, (10 Sep 1769) Thomas Grimston at Harrow School; Tassoni, the dancer, engaged as dancing master at Harrow School. Russian Ambassador expected in Hull; Robert Grimston to spend winter in South of France or Naples for health reasons; new printing press; hounds; piano made by Johannes Zumpe et Buntebart; list of pupils at Harrow School (2 pieces), (Nov 1769); petition of Mary, widow of Walter Hardwick, for financial assistance. |