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Letters between astronomers discussing astronomical and mathematical matters

1. Morning Post, and Daily Advertiser, 745, 17 March 1775
2. Morning Post, and Daily Advertiser, 3105, 9 January 1783
3. Morning Post, and Daily Advertiser, 3627, 27 September 1784
4. Morning Post, and Daily Advertiser, 4109, 18 April 1786
5. Morning Post, and Daily Advertiser, 5604, 12 April 1791
6. Morning Post, and Daily Advertiser, 5909, 12 April 1792
7. Morning Post, 6317, 20 July 1793
8. Morning Post, 11,506, 1 July 1805

Includes letters to George O'Callaghan from his sister, Elizabeth Hyde, and F. Matthews; fragments of college classical exercise and historical notes; an advertisement for Deacon & Morrell's ink and for a Ramsgate confectioner; and a songsheet with music for the piece 'Come Cheer Up My Lads', taken from David Garrick's pantomine 'Harlequin's Invasion'.

1. Oxford Gazette, 15, 4 January 1665
2. London Gazette, 1809, 22 March 1682
3. London Gazette, 1784, 26 December 1682
4. London Gazette, 1785, 28 December 1682
5. London Gazette, 1895, 17 January 1683
6. London Gazette, 1896, 21 January 1683
7. London Gazette, 1898, 28 January 1683
8. London Gazette, 1901, 7 February 1683
9. London Gazette, 1902, 11 February 1683
10. London Gazette, 1903, 14 February 1683
11. London Gazette, 1811, 29 March 1683
12. London Gazette, 1815, 12 April 1683
13. London Gazette, 1837, 28 June 1683
14. London Gazette, 1839, 5 July 1683
15. London Gazette, 1843, 19 July 1683
16. London Gazette, 1851, 16 August 1683
17. London Gazette, 1944, 6 July 1684
18. London Gazette, 1948, 21 July 1684
19. London Gazette, 1963, 11 September 1684
20. London Gazette, 1964, 15 September 1684
21. London Gazette, 1965, 18 September 1684
22. London Gazette, 1966, 22 September 1684
23. London Gazette, 1967, 25 September 1684
24. London Gazette, 1968, 29 September 1684
25. London Gazette, 1970, 6 October 1684
26. London Gazette, 1971, 9 October 1684
27. London Gazette, 1973, 16 October 1684
28. London Gazette, 1975, 23 October 1684
29. London Gazette, 1976, 27 October 1684
30. London Gazette, 1978, 3 November 1684
31. London Gazette, 1979, 6 November 1684
32. London Gazette, 2192, 22 November 1686
33. London Gazette, 4134, 25 June 1705
34. London Gazette, 4135, 28 June 1705
35. London Gazette, 4136, 2 July 1705
36. London Gazette, 4137, 5 July 1705
37. London Gazette, 4138, 9 July 1705
38. London Gazette, 4139, 12 July 1705
39. London Gazette, 4140, 16 July 1705
40. London Gazette, 4141, 19 July 1705
41. London Gazette, 4142, 23 July 1705
42. London Gazette, 4143, 26 July 1705
43. London Gazette, 4144, 30 July 1705
44. London Gazette, 4145, 2 August 1705
45. London Gazette, 4636, 7 January 1709
46. London Gazette, 4637, 10 January 1709
47. London Gazette, 4638, 12 January 1709
48. London Gazette, 4639, 14 January 1709
49. London Gazette, 4640, 17 January 1709
50. London Gazette, 4641, 19 January 1709
51. London Gazette, 4642, 21 January 1709
52. London Gazette, 4670, 28 March 1710
53. London Gazette, 4671, 30 March 1710
54. London Gazette, 4672, 1 April 1710
55. London Gazette, 4673, 4 April 1710
56. London Gazette, 4674, 6 April 1710
57. London Gazette, 4675, 8 April 1710
58. London Gazette, 4677, 13 April 1710
59. London Gazette, 4678, 15 April 1710
60. London Gazette, 4679, 18 April 1710
61. London Gazette, 4680, 20 April 1710
62. London Gazette, 4691, 16 May 1710
63. London Gazette, 4693, 20 May 1710
64. London Gazette, 4697, 30 May 1710
65. London Gazette, 13,330, 2 August 1791
66. London Gazette, 15,857, 6 November 1805
67. London Gazette, 16,869, 17 March 1814

Includes key and shuttlecock found in a fireplace in First Court with letters to O'Callaghan. The key is labelled 'Commissariat key'.

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.