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zDDGR - GRIMSTON FAMILY OF GRIMSTON GARTH AND KILNWICK
42 - John Grimston (1725-1780)
4 - Various letters relating to John Grimston
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Piece
Finding No
DDGR/42/4/113
Extent
1 item
Title
Letter to John Grimston at Kilnwick from Rob[er]t Dingley at London
Date
16 Nov 1754
Description
Includes references to the Prints having been approved, his Bessy having chosen them; Yorkshire air and York friends; thinking of Bath about Xmas; the fine Autumn; Grimston's wishes for Coloured Prints to Furnish a room but not having said how many he wants or what subjects; his feelings that they must be after such Pictures that are at Rome only; advice to write to Sir Digby about it; Major's prints; engravings at Palmira and Balbee; Lord Marquis of Rockingham at last having approved Dingley's plan for the stand at the course at York with some alteration proposed by Mr Carr in the Salloon; talks of change in the Ministry but it not yet having taken place; affairs going well in the Americas but East India affairs going ill and the Prince of Hess who married Princes[s] Mary having taken the Roman catholic religion and his father has deprived him of all his posts
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