| Description | Includes letters from: Lord Palmerston, War Office; Osborn Sheppard, Hull; Henry B Barnard, Cave Castle; Thomas George Fitzgerald, (Newton?), Near Bradford, John Sykes, Kirk Ella; H Porter, 1 Bridge Street, Hull (7 pieces); J Beckett, Whitehall; James and William Iveson, Hedon (10 pieces); Frances Grimston, Etton and Sunderlandwick (2 pieces); George Reed, Conyngham House; Henry Grimston, Kensington (5 pieces); GE Dundale, Middleham (2 pieces); Thomas Legard, Driffield; W Legard, Ganton; B Wallis, Beverley; Robert Wilson, Patrington (2 pieces); Henry Maister, Hull; Mary Ann Walter, Holmpton; Isaac Broadley, Brantingham; Henry Grimston, Harrow (2 pieces); Francis Best, South Dalton; Ransom, Morland and Company London; Office for Military Acompts; George Hassell, Great George Street; William Wardell, Beverley (2 pieces); Thomas R Grey, Stockton-on-Tees; Henry Storre, Sledmere; Hannah Jones, Hinckley; William Sleeford, Doncaster; Jonathan Dixon, Humbleton; Thomas Armstrong, Springhouse; B Wardell, Beverley (2 pieces). Concerning: volunteers; estate. (Ringbrough); ice house; servants; death of Sir Richard Kaye, late Dean of Lincoln; horticulture; 'The Great stone house in Piccadilly, quondam Lord Barrymores, is to be opened as a Hotel.....a foreign count has taken it....rent alone is £1,500 per ann.', (13 Mar 1810); dinner at the Globe Office and Tavern, Fleet Street ('Beef tail soup, boil'd pork and pease pudding, omelet, bread cheese porter and glass of neagus, 5/8') , (13 Mar 1810); horses; financial affairs; living of Argam; timetables of 'The Rodney Coach', York-London; and another, Barton-London), (22 Apr 1810); Driffield Hunt Room, (1 May 1810); removal of road at Holmpton; coconuts; American cranberries; marble models(of'the Green Sugar pear')made at Derby but 'the pears would not send so far', (28 Aug 1810); information from Somerset House (prior to Act of 1800) used to obtain money and defraud next of kin; 'A Companion and Useful Guide to the Beauties of Scotland and the Hebrides' (2 vols 3 edns 1799-1810) by Hon Mrs Aurray Aust, wife of Secretary and Registrar of Chelsea Hospital, (25 Sep 1810); 'If you want a young male Elephant to turn down into your paddock there is one advertized for that purpose price £1000 or guineas....some piping Bulfinches may be had somewhat cheaper for 4 guineas each to whistle 3 Tunes', (25 Sep 1810); William Cossass of Beverley, cooper and George Sheffield (married to daughter of Matthew Mirrington, late farrier of Beverley) possible successors to Thackray as postman; horticultural Society Exhibition (apple called 'Newbolds Duke of York', 13 inches circumference and 17 and three quarter ounce in weight, etc), (23 Nov 1810); 'The Hottentot venus' exhibited in Piccadilly. death of King's daughter; Driffield Hunt book, (23 Nov 1810) and Keyingham Level Drainage tax. |