| Description | Includes letters from: D Pidgeon; Will Gray, York; John Denison, Leeds, Miles Dawson, Oxton (2 pieces); William Rogerson, Garton; FF Foljambe, York; Marmaduke Prickett, Bridlington; Joseph Dickinson, Beverley Parks; William Cayley, Brompton; John Toddy, York; M Francklin, Queen Street; George Allanson, Bramham Park Lodge; George Lew. Palman, Whitehall; John Hargrave, Hull; Garforth, Raper and Company; John Lockwood, Beverley (4 pieces); John Graves, York; W Dade, York; William Mosey, Lund; Saml Sigston, Beverley; William Cross, York (3 pieces); Joseph Bramah, 14, West End, Piccadilly, London; 'BB'(Benjamin Blackden), Highfields; Robert Grimston, York; HC Legh, High Legh; Smith, Paris, Concerning: account for alteration to skirt of a French embossed waistcoat; Enclosure (Kilnwick ?-mentions Draper Close); special jury service: Sir Thomas Gascoigne versus FF Foljambe; financial affairs; estate ( Lovesome Hill, Birkby); servants; volume of Dr Francklin's sermons to be prepared; account for newspapers; drainage (River Hull); shields (for dining room at Grimston Garth?) (20 Aug 1786) 'The races (York) have no charms for me, though heightned by the theatrical powers of a Siddons and the ascension of Lunardi'; 'On an average..the ocean gains 100 yards in 40 years, ie 2 yards and half yearly', (20 Aug 1786); Land Tax meetings to be held at Bainton; description of first iron bridge at Coalbrookdale , Shropshire, (10 Nov 1786); location of meetings of magistrates for Bainton division and Manor of Kilnwick. |