| Description | From his sons Thomas (59 pieces) and Henry (3 pieces), and nephew John Legard (3 pieces), all at Cheam School; and their master William Gilpin (9 pieces); and from Thomas Grimston at Harrow (5 pieces) and his Dame, Mrs G Crampton (2 pieces); and Henry Grimston, Harrow (3 pieces). Concerninig: School life; requests for money, clothing, books, etc ; journeys to school; 'Mr J Whateley has inoculated his whole parish (against smallpox) about 278 persons and had not one nurse to take care of them'; robbery of coach near Stamford; drawing lessons ('We do not draw anything from nature but all from drawings of Mr Sawry Gilpin's'); epsom races; 'You gave me one Yorkshire Guinea but they took it at Tadcaster and that you gave Jack was likewise a cliped one'; 'Mr Taconey (Tassoni) a famous stage dancer' employed at Harrow as dancing master; new stage coach Harrow-Holborn. |