| Description | From: Jane and Charles Grimston, Grimston, Ireland. Exmouth and Clifton (36 pieces); N Trench, Cirencester and Glenmalire (3 pieces); M A Chapman, Dunlickney Glebe; Jane Orrah; C Neate, 3 Argyle Street, London; Eliza Oldman. Concerning: journey from Kilnwick to County Durham. York Festival; 'Fever' at Etton; marriage of Charles Grimston and Jane Trench in Ireland; journeys to Ireland; new road through North Wales to Holyhead 'made by Government at an enormous expence...very wide and spacious...so managed that the most beautiful parts of Wales in its immediate neighbourhood are shewn to the traveller'; fine bridge over the Menai Strait will be completed soon; value of Irish currency; family and social gossip; marriage of Jane Grimston's sister, Fanny and brother, Thomas; sea bathing at Grimston; A 'basket for lending out to poor women'; clothing club sale; Bazaar to be held in zoological gardens (Hull) which are £3000 in debt; sale of smuggled goods which have been seized; The 'late riots' in West Riding and Lancashire; death of Jane Grimston's brother-in-law. Dated: 1823-1828; 1840. |