| Description | Includes letters from: Thorpe and Gray, York; Richard Simmonds; William Rogerson, junior., Henry Heron and Michael Horsley, Garton; William Jobson, Newtown; B Wardell, Beverley; Francis Wardell, for Bower, Duesbery and Company, Beverley; Francis Elliot, Malton; William Collier, Bowes; W Bottrill, Bracken; HP Pulleine, Crakehall; Henry Grimston snr, Kensington; Charles Grimston, Temple; Robert Staveley, Kilnwick. Concerning: estate and financial matters; servant; description of Hastings, co Sussex, as a resort, (31 Oct 1817); also mentions Brighton, Bath, Ramsgate and Margate; social gossip; 'Gas lamps (in London) lighted for the firet time last night and appeared exceedingly brilliant', (11 Nov 1817); death of Princess Charlotte and House rented at Weymouth. |