| Description | Includes letters from: Edward Cottrell, York (6 pieces); Henry Maister, Hull (4 pieces); Phil Langdale, Houghton; Thomas Knowlton (2 pieces); Francis Best, South Dalton (2 pieces); A. Maister, Hull; John Bell, Pocklington; Emanuel Mendes da Costa, London; William Mosey, Lund (2 pieces); Thomas West, London; John Dalrymple. Provost of Edinburgh (2 pieces); Paul Panton, Holywell and Edinburgh (3 pieces); William J Meeke, 'Somerset', Plymouth Sound; Ane Phillips, Bracken; Francis Legard, York; William Whately; Robert Grimston, Harley Street and Neswick (3 pieces); Josuiah Grove, New Inn (3 pieces); Matthew Williamson, Fridaythorpe; John Graves, York (3 pieces); H Witham, Nuttles; John Legard, Brunswick; Blashell Foster, Beswick; Thomas Bowness, Nafferton; Francis Boynton, Cherry Burton (3 pieces); Thomas Grimston, London and Tours (3 pieces); John Grimston to Thomas Grimston (copy); G Cayley, Brompton; Benjamin Toulston, Grosvenor Mews; W Parker Piccadilly; Francis Best, Beverley (3 pieces); Robert Hildyard, Stratton Street; S Mills, Holywell (2 pieces); William Strickland, Boynton and Howsham (2 pieces); P Johnson, York; Thomas Ashton, Bishop Burton; John Nornaville, York; Giradot, Haller and Company, Paris; G Martin, Tours; Gregory Cooper, Parliament Street; William George, Commissioner of Scarborough Piers; Robert Evans, Londesborough (2 pieces); M W(aters), Walls End; John Leppington, Kilnwick; Bethell Jackson, Beverley; (Dr) J Sampson, Beverley; Jane Legard, Ganton; John Wilson, London; John Millison, Kilnwick; Edward Todd, Beverley; W Anderaon; Walter Synnot, Scarborough; John Grimston to Francis Hutchinson, Hunmanby; Henry Boulton, Uppingham (to Thomas Grimston in Tours); Beachcroft, Seward and West, London; George Ewbank, junior, York; Isaac Broadley, Hull; William and John Perfect, Pontefract. Concerning: books, including 'History of the Indies' and Pennant's Zoology; financial, social and family affairs; estate (Etton, Kilnwick); two poachers (William and Thomas Burton of Market Weighton) to be recommended to notice of the Captain of the press gang in Hull, (9 Jan 1777); collection of Wold and Yorkshire snails loaned to EM da Costa to be painted by him-'there are in Yorkshire several species of Land Snails that are extremely scarce and even unknown in other parts of England', (28 Jan 1777); account of money owed to John Grimston by James Ryder, deceased; Charles Stewart, a vagrant, of Kinlooh, Perthshire, detained in House of Correction, Beverley; request for influence on behalf of Thomas Totty, a lieutenant on board Commodore Hotham's ship in America; theft of cloth and tea from Samuel Smith, shopkeeper, of Huggate; comment on American War, (23 Mar 1777); Roger and Lydia Walker of Nafferton refuse to live peaceably together; military academies of Mr Angelo,and Monsieur Lochee, Chelsea; bust of Tully ordered from Mr Harris, statuary, opposite the New Church in the Strand; set of coach horses; Thomas Grimston travelling in France; women in the South (of England) use 'so much paint....you might as well kiss a plaistered wall', (11 Jun 1777) scheme talked of in France for driving the Turks out of Europe and removal of the Pope to Constantinople, (15 Jun 1777) John Grimston's will; notice of meeting of freeholders and proprietors of Etton to claim their lands through the Sheep Swarth; prescription and instructions for sea bathing as a treatment for John Grimston's headaches, (22 Jun 1777); tenancy of house at Etton; French dress frock and silk breeches sent to John Grimston from London; death of Lady Frances Legard; planting garden at Kilnwick. |