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Announcing birth of Robert Yates.

From St Augustine's College, [Canterbury]. Seeking biographical and other details from her and from Henry Yates Whytehead for a sketch of TW to be published in Mission Life. The Whytehead Prize at St Augustine's for proficiency in the Greek Testament, founded by HYW.

From Bewholme. Has never fished in Hornsea Mere in recent times, nor has he ever spoken to Mr Constable, who does not like medical men having lost a lawsuit to one. Robert and Alice are sailing in the Hebrides. Times are hard for landlords and farms, notwithstanding a fine harvest.

Has identified a book among those owned by his father that RYW might appreciate.

The signatures include those of P. T. Main; William Webb, Master of Clare College; Thomas Cole, Dean of Ely; William Henry Bateson, Master of St John's College Cambridge; Henry Goulburn, MP; W. Whewell, Master of Trinity College Cambridge; E. B. Pusey; W. R. Inge; V.? Keble; Edward Churton; Colonel Chaplin, MP; John Graham, Bishop of Chester; Samuel Wilberforce, Bishop of Oxford; Henry Phillpotts, Bishop of Exeter; R. Gray, Bishop of Cape Town; Thomas Turton, Bishop of Ely; J. A. Jeremie, Regius Professor of Divinity; William Stephen Poyntz; Lindsey and Beverley; the Duke of Clarence (later William IV); J. Mulgrave (?); Peter Parley [Samuel Griswold Goodrich], children's author; Derwent Coleridge; W. M. Paley; Horace Smith, novelist; the Earls of Denbigh, Tankerville and Campden (1830s); Thomas Phillips, Mayor of Newport during the Chartist Riots; Colonel Chatterton, MP; Spenser Perceval, Prime Minister; Sir William Salusbury-Trelawny; Jullien; W. A. Johnson, MP; Lady Leigh, Stoneleigh Abbey; Thomas Moore, poet and songwriter; Sir J. Clerk, MP; William Sterndale Bennett; Richard Doyle, illustrator; Thomas Chapman, Bishop of Colchester; John Bird Sumner, Archbishop of Canterbury.

With other letters from John Ward, J. Atkinson in Hull, M. de Clugny, a Miss R. Whytehead, perhaps a sister of William or Henry. 1768-c. 1800 and undated, mostly 1790s. The letters relate for the most part to domestic courtesies and to the enthusiastic borrowing and return of books and magazines, though some touch on servants, wartime taxation, military preparations in the East Riding, globes on sale in London, a botanic microscope, tithes, mad dogs, the Keyingham Level Drainage Bill and other matters. According to a label on the original folder they were found in a secret drawer of a bureau at Rolston Hall, near Hornsea, c. 1860. Held with a silhouette of and an obituary for Henry Robert Whytehead, contributed by G[eorge] W[eight] to an Appendix to the Christian Observer for 1818, and a certificate of admission of Sara, Maria and Elizabeth Reynolds to a copyhold in Kettendon, 7 June 1694.

All letters are addressed to RYW unless otherwise noted.