| Description | Includes letters from: S Butler, Shrewsbury (2 pieces); R Copland, Kilnwick (3 pieces); William Gray, York; Elisabeth Smith, Paris; John Frazer, Preston; D Croasdaile, Golden Square; Francis Wrangham, Hunmanby; Richard Legard, Stockton-on-Tees and Scarborough (2 pieces); Edward Metcalf, York; Charles Creed, Pall Mall; J Simpson, Roos; Maister, Beverley; W Wilberforce, London; John Hayes. Worksop; Henry Grimston, London; Charles Grimston, Shropshire (2 pieces); Henry Maister, Winestead; Francis Constable, Baker St, Portman Square; Thomas Blomefield, Woolwich; 'BB'(Benjamin Blackden); Wormald, Gott and Wormalds, Leeds; John Lockwood, Beverley; Digby Legard, Wykeham Abbey; Jas Atkinson. Concerning: financial affairs; estate (mentions Bracken); request that Thomas Grimston should apply to War Office on behalf of Jonathan Frazer, his former sergeant; subscriptions to edition of Shakespeare and medal; Charles Grimston at Shrewsbury School ('I learn the gun exercise, and we have wooden guns,.....! should be very much obliged if you would send me a real musket', (6 Oct 1803); Richard Legard may resign from army-'I cannot defray the heavy expences of so much marching and south country living'; opinion of William Wilberforce on Bill relating to new irregular military force, (21 Jul 1803); raising volunteers; acquiring light artillery gun; uniform; beacons in Kilnwick area to be lit, (6 Oct 1803); 'Ireland is now in so critical a state.....great difference of exchange now between the two countries' and servants. |