| Description | Includes letters from: John Goodman, London; Digby Legard, Ganton (5 pieces); William Whately (2 pieces); Robert Hildyard, Winestead and Harrogate (4 pieces): T Hooke, Birkby (2 pieces); Thomas Grimston, Harrow, Grantham and London (10 pieces); J Baxby, Hull; Christopher Scott, Hull (2 pieces); W Raines, Wyton; Jas Collins; Michael Ake, Beverley; R Grimston, Warrington, Scarborough, Wavertree, Clifton, Knightsbridge and Nice (6 pieces); Lucy Kennedy, Kew Lane; Francis Legard, York (3 pieces); Henry Grimston, Cheam; John Graves, York (7 pieces); J Stone (3 pieces); John Platt, Ashford; G Crampton, Harrow; Martin Stow, Kilnwick (3 pieces); Francis Best, Beverley (2 pieces); P Panton, Chester and Plas Gwyn (2 pieces); Mattw. Remington, Beverley (2 pieces); John Carr, York; Christopher Gunby, Hull; Robert Evans, Londesborough; Sir James Pennyman, Beverley; William Denison, London and Beswick (2 pieces); H Maister, Driffield and Hull (2 pieces); Lewis Boisdaune, Portsmouth; R Creyk, Tunbridge Wells; John Ramsey; Charles Hotham, Dalton; Nevill Stow, Portsmouth; P Townes, Wakefield (4 pieces); Francis Caley, Doncaster; Roger Gee, Bishop Burton; John Grimston to Reverend Drake, Beverley; William Gilpin, Cheam; S Mills, Norbury; George Grant, Beverley; Martin Langdale, Holme; 'H D' (Henry Duncombe); H Wilcock, Pocklington; E Elwick, Wakefield; Samuel Bland, Beverley; F Boynton, Cherry Burton (2 pieces); T Robinson; Nathaniel Maister; Greg Cooper, Kew Lane; Henry Newton. Pocklington; LB Barnard, South Cave; W Anderson, Kilnwick (2 pieces); Todd and Sotheron, York; Heath and Wing, Strand; F Best, South Dalton. Concerning: financial, political, social and family affairs; John Grimston's sketches and caricature of William Kemp 'our Clerk', of Winestead, 'his mouth is considerably wider than when you last saw him.. .you might chuck a pullet into him with as much ease as a glass of beer... Sir Joshua Reynolds would be glad to take him for a Show Picture.' (20 Jan 1770); estate (Birkby, Beverley, Hull and islands (in River Hull ?) East Newton inclosure and Ringbrough tithes; portrait of Robert Grimston; Robert Grimston's marriage; his wife's ill health; 'Warrington has not as yet arrived at the perfection of London, but imitates it in miniature, for in the Room of Almacks you are entertained with Copper Works and Glass Houses which are....most exceedingly void of smoke.' (22 Feb 1770) account for pair of amethyst vases; many pupils from Yorkshire at Harrow School; alterations and new roof at Kilnwick Hall (May 1770)(22 Jul 1770); Walkington inclosure [enclosure] (the Bishop's demands 'very extravagant'), (23 Jun 1770); complaint about poor relief in Londesborough; Beswick/Kilnwick boundary; rights of Kilnwick freeholders in pasture called the Outgang, (30 Jun 1770) proposed building at Driffield (Hunt Room ?) (7 Jul 1770) death of Commodore Forrest, Commander of Jamaica Station; Scarborough election ('..if Jack Ketch was to bid sixpence more than you or any other of their neighbours he would have the honour of representing them'); 'Arrow Day' at Harrow School; meeting for consideration of Bill for inclosure [enclosure] of Lockington and 'a common called Wilfholme', (21 Jul 1770) fire at Portsmouth dockyard, damages estimated at £200000, (27 Jul 1770); massacre of every foreign minister in Constantinople except English Ambassador; opinion of Cheam School ('they learn nothing there'); dogs; Burletta and fireworks display in Marrowbone (Marylebone)Gardens. 'The rapid success of the Russians.....! would not advise you to give above ten years purchase for any Estate in the Kingdom'; account for mahogany measuring wheel; Portrait of 'Betty', wife of Robert Grimston, painted by Zoffany, 2 copies taken, one being for John Grimston, the original intended as an exhibition picture, (8 Nov 1770). |