Series A - Letters mostly from Henry Robert Whytehead (1773-1818, Jesus College, BA 1795) or his father William Whytehead (d. 1817) to Mrs Brough of Rolston Hall and to Mrs Brough's sister Mrs Thomas

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.