| Description | Includes letters from: W Chate, The Vine and Stoke Park (5 pieces); R Copland, Kilnwick (3 pieces); JG Osbaldeston, Hunmanby; Henry Maister, 33 Mount Street and Winestead (5 pieces); W Wilberforce, London; Walter Grimston, Fanny Grimston and Jane Legard, Etton (2 pieces); Walter Grimston, Scarborough and Hull (6 pieces); John Cayley, Clifton Down, Bristol (2 pieces); William Wardell, Beverley (3 pieces); Edward Everard and son, Lynn; J Salmond, York; Hannah Wardell; H Grimston and Philip Leslie, Driffield; 'BB'(Benjamin Blackden), 357 Oxford St (3 pieces); Christopher Ratsey, Cowes; Thomas Scottin, Beverley (2 pieces); Mrs George Berkeley, St James's; J Vickers, Trinity Hall, Cambridge; George Crozier and Son, London; Frances Grimston (wife) and Frances Grimston (sister of TG), Kilnwick (4 pieces); Tatton Sykes, Hull (2 pieces); Mr Dougdale, 418 Oxford Street; Walter Powell junior, London (4 pieces); Henry Grimston, White Waltham (2 pieces); H Singleton, Long Witton, Morpeth; Robert Brownrigg, Horse Guards; W Hildyard, Winestead; B Foord, Pall Mall; Richard P Bedster, Sand Hutton; Thomas Dorrington, Wyton; T Stephenson, Kilnwiok; Cox and Greenwood, London; PO Castelman, Northumberland Street (2 pieces); Peter Asholme, Baverley; H N Kilvington, Acomb; Mr Dixon, Humbleton; George Scott, Wolston; Rd Bethell, Rise; W Wrigglesworth, Louth; John Fraser, Preston (2 pieces); Medley Sylvester Grimston, Birmingham (2 pieces). Concerning: social gossip; price of corn; estate and financial affairs; Hunmanby tithe petition; obtaining commission for Walter Grimston; his service in Henry Maister's regiment; appointment of Surveyor of Taxes; expenses of journey from Bath to Etton; horses; illness and death of Mrs Legard (aunt of Thomas Grimston). Postponement of trial of Sir John Chardin Musgrave until summer assizes; blank lottery ticket; 'Conversatione' of Edward King author of'The Signs of the Times'etc at His Magnific Palais Royale'. ( 7 Jun 1800) Admission of Thomas Grimston's son as pensioner of Trinity Hall, Cambridge; tailor's account, (13 Jun 1800); ploughs shipped from London to Hull; hounds; volunteers; making uniforms; soldiers' billeting allowances (Aug 1800); picture painted for Thomas Grimston by H Singleton, portrait- painter; Hull 'never free from annoyance.... the hot weather and whale blubber being over, we have now dirty streets and the smell of the Sugar Houses to succeed them'. (27 Aug 1800); 'Much disposition to riot in different parts of this Great Town' (London); machine for writing two original letters at once and bequest to Thomas Grimston by Mr Laughton. |