| Description | From: Jane, wife of John Grimston, Kilnwick (2 pieces) about social and family affairs, (c 1756); Thomas Grimston, Cambridge; 30 Suffolk St, London; Ganton, York (4 pieces) relating to social gossip, (c 1775); Henry Grimston, Harley Street relating to social gossip; a visit to Court; Levers Museum is 'almost double since you saw it', (c.1776); Jane Grimston, York and Scarborough (26 pieces) about social and family affairs. A 'Sheffield Urn', (c.1763-c.1776); Frances Grimston, York (9 pieces) relating to social and family affairs. Death of Queen of Denmark. (Two letters are partly from Frances Legard), (c.1763-c.1775); Robert Grimston, Neswick and Beverley (13 pieces) relating to general affairs, (1770's); Mrs M Stow, Kilnwick (housekeeper to John Grimston) about (l2 pieces) family, social and household affairs. Road over Hutton Bushell Ings, (c.1760-c.1770); Lady Frances Legard, York and Etton (20 pieces) about family and social affairs, (c.1760-c.1775); Sir Digby Legard, Etton, Ganton, Beverley. London, Brompton, Scarborough and Watton Abbey (16 pieces) relating to repair of Ganton church roof. Receivership of the East Riding. Scheme for 'new channel for the River in a strait line and not to turn the flood water into the sea at Scalby'. Family, social and general matters, (pre-1773); Jane Legard, Ganton (8 pieces) about financial, social and family affairs. Estate (Etton), (c.1772-c.1777); Miss Frances Legard, York, Scarborough and Edwardinburgh (29 pieces) relating to family affairs; social life in Scarborough. New playhouse in York. Sea bathings, (c.1760-1775); John Legard; Georg Legard; R Legard relating to John Legard to enter the army. Extract from letter relating to (Thomas?) Legard, on board the 'Rippon', Madeira. A coach journey, (c1775); Francis Best (jnr and snr ?), South Dalton (13 pieces) relating to inoculation. 'Barbarity and Brutality' of the Overseers of Poor of Lund towards a woman, who later died, and of vicar of Etton, who refused to bury her. General affairs, (c.1760-c.1770); H Duncombe, Copgrove; Norbury and 5 Portman Street (9 pieces) relating to new (Hunt ?) Room at Driffield. Possibility of H Duncombe representing Yorkshire in election but 'to enter into an expensive or corrupt Contest would not agree either with my Circumstances or Principles...' General and social affairs, (c1770); Jos Grove, New Inn and Beverley (4 pieces) relating to electrical machine ('I am anxious to know whether the Process with the broken silver Buckle has yet produc'd Gold'). Details of voting in House of Lords in 'the great question of literary Property....determined against the property'. 'Pictures sell for nothing-nay good ones are given away as nobody has any Money except such Country Gentlemen as yourself'. Proceedings in appeal for a new trial relating to Mr Smith's lead mines, (c.1775); various correspondents, including W Anderson, Kilnwick (6 pieces); John Graves. York and Flaxton (4 pieces); G Croft, Beverley (2 pieces); B Foord (2 pieces); J Bagnall; M Waters, Walls End (2 pieces); F Peirson, York (4 pieces); J Robinson, Welburn and Coney Street, York; Robert C Broadley, Octon Grange and Hull (3 pieces); Francis Drake, Beverley (4 pieces); Ralph Creyk, Ferriby (3 pieces)? E Cottrell, York; William Mosey, Lund (4 pieces); W Strickland, Boynton, Welburn, Hackney and Quay (4 pieces); (Dr?) J Sampson, Beverley (2 pieces); John Kilvington, Lincoln's Inn. E Minishull; William Ushaw; M Best, Dalton (2 pieces); R Best; John Bowman; M Sykes; Charles Cottrell, Scarborough (2 pieces); Abel Smith junior Hull; T Robinson, York (2 pieces); J Dalrymple, Cranston, near Edinburgh; Duke of Devonshire, London; Francis Meeke; P Panton, Plas Gwyn; Emilia MacLeod, Beverley; W Wilberforce, Beverley; N Torre, Beverley; (Thomas Francklin ?), Queen Street, (London); G Savile; H Willoughby; Nevile Stow, Harrogate; William Williamson; Henry Maister; J Penleaze, London and Country Register Office, King Street, Cheapside; Harry Jefferson to Ben Wade (copy); Jane Mason, Arncott's House, Retford; James Pennyman; William Rogerson; Ann Ellerington; William J Meeke, 'Niger', Portsmouth; William Vawser; Margaret Kirk; Francis Lundy (2 pieces); Dr Foster, Beverley; George Hotham, Beverley; Gregory Cooper; Ann Newton; Mary Webster; C Ingram, Temple Newsam; W Stables; Mrs Kempe; G Strickland (2 pieces); Richard Metcalfe; J Dalton, Sleningford; Thomas West, St Mary Hill (2 pieces); Isabella Broady, Pocklington; George Simmons; Jos Colley, Ganton; William Usherwood jnr. and senior, Whitby; Thomas Dade, Agnes Burton (2 pieces); William Wardell, Kilnwick. Copies of letters from John Grimston (5 pieces). Concerning: general, social, family and financial affairs; estate (Birkby, Lund); elections (York, Beverley, Hull); books; hunting; instructions for setting up and use of electrical apparatus; machine for cutting wood for the solar microscope or megalascope; social life in Scarborough; the Duchess of Dieschoff; verses; swans; prescription for John Grimston; request for John Grimston's opinion of Cheam, Gateridge, Beverley and Harrow Schools; deputation of gamekeeper for manor of Londesborough; son of Colonel Troughear, 'a very wild little Boy', brought from Scotland for education in England; reference to Catholic Chapel in Hull being burnt down by a mob (no details); art exhibitions in London; opinion of Eton School; breeding carp (at Birdsall); concert to be held at 'World's End', Harrogate; Harrogate is 'full of Company...three or four in a Bed.'; letter in shorthand (posted Cambridge); Owl from Sweden 'rare and difficult to be got' humorous letter on the virtues of white and red meat; copy of letter in East Yorkshire dialect; 18 day's passage Newfoundland-Portsmouth; matters arising from John Grimston's duties as a magistrate (poor relief, etc); notice of trial of 23 rioters for high treason; work of an authoress who lived in poverty after death of her father, a clergyman; lodgings at Miss Gladhill's (milliner) opposite the York Tavern; financial assistance required by Mr and Mrs Tullock; candidate for position of Keeper of House of Correction, Beverley, to replace Mr Plummer; list of flower seeds required; 'An Original Letter from a Young Lady in Town to her friend in the Country, written strictly conformable to the Rules laid down in Dr Lowths Grammar'; various notes of thanks, invitation, etc, (c.1755-c.1780). |