| Description | Includes letters from: George Hassell, London (3 pieces); James Tate, Richmond, Yorkshire (2 pieces); S Butler, Shrewsbury; C Keld, Beverley. Lieutenant General R Vyse, Commanding the Yorkshire District (2 pieces); James Iveson, Hedon (2 pieces); William Reed, Hull; Edward Ombler, Camerton; Joseph Wilson, Scarborough; S Maister, Winestead; Charles Stewart, Hull; John Cayley, Malton and Fangfoss (4 pieces); C Creed, Shakespeare Gallery, 59 Pall Mall; James Campbell, Bowes; RP Pulleine, Carleton Hall; RD Hildyard, Ledbury; John Legard, Sunbury; Thomas Frost, Bull; Thomas Moxon, Hull; Charles Grimston, Shropshire; Robert C Broadley, Ferriby; John Lockwood, Beverley; William Little, Patrington; 'FG'(Frances Grimston), Kilnwick. Concerning: Oswald Grimston at school in Richmond, Yorkshire and Charles Grimston at Shrewsbury; 2000 Welsh volunteers in Shrewsbury 'very quiet and very good looking men'; volunteers; Beverley and Barmston drainage assessment for estates at Kilnwick and Hutton Cranswick; false alarm in North Riding caused by burning ling or whins; request for regulation and public notice of times when such fires may be lit, in order to prevent alarms or future indifference to the signal (Circular), (2l Mar 1805) horses; harpsichord arrived at Hull; purchase of servants' beds etc and Turkey carpet for shooting lodge at Bowes; Stodhart piano, (21 Sep 1805); Novel 'Victoria' is 'a bungling imitation of Richardson with a disgusting interlardment of vulgarity'; bread reduced in price to twelvepence halfpenny; social and financial affairs; Thomas Legard released from confinement. |