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Black Swan, York. - Recommends Mr Noble for Governorship of York Castle; own incarceration there; domestic news. Adds postscript: will send a work of his nephew [William?]’s; flood at Ferrybridge; cordial reception by R. P. Milnes.

Brunswick House, George Town, Jersey. - Seeking a Government post; formerly a grocer at Pontefract but left owing to wife's illness; former participation in West Riding politics.

[solicits funds to establish a school for working class children at Knottingleyl: Everton

candidates for West Riding Police appointments; own success would mean giving up present profession and settling in England: Scarboro’

Mr Maynard will visit Milnes in London to discuss plans for Pontefract Grammar School

Requests introduction for Mr Maynard to the Secretary of the Duchy of Lancaster; Maynard’s financial burden

Pontefract. - Seeking grant from the Duchy of Lancaster for repairs to Pontefract Grammar School; had hoped to receive one upon Mr Maynard’s appointment; sums of money involved

H. M. Ship Minden.- Grateful for Milnes’s help in obtaining position in the Royal Navy; sailing for Madeira on Sunday next

Seeking civil service post for his brother

Missed Wharlton; Mary Williams, “late Brice”, is an impostor

Frail health and lack of funds; plans to publish another edition of his pamphlet; seeks Milnes's influence; national politics; views on Corn Laws; Tory resurgence

Hargreaves grateful for Milnes's efforts concerning young man’s sentence; Sir Robert’s scale of duties; Hepworth and Clough; Lowther’s death certificate; writer’s brother ill at Torquay; organ

Petition on behalf of unnamed man; Peel's taxes; local agricultural and timber trade

Ann Ferguson and Hannah Holder solicit charity but probably ought to be horsewhipped

Tariff question; ignorance of Parliamentary affairs; constituents’ resistance to raising of duty on liquorice; Milnes would not enjoy tenants’ dinner to celebrate Pollington’s marriage

Appointment of Magistrates at Pontefract

Sum required to obtain Alexander Adams’ discharge from the Army

Milnes's subscription to Diocesan Board funds; return of book; violent contention at Oxford

His brother-in-law John Ellis wishes to become a gauger in the Customs at London Docks; all Whig objections to voters for Pontefract have been disallowed

Application for appointment on behalf of his son

Postmaster General will not alter Ferrybridge postal arrangements

To delay celebratory dinner; Leeds election; Jocelyn's disappointment

Seeks Milnes's influence to obtain a Living for his son; was away when Mr Marshall died last week or would have applied immediately

Cannot undertake advance payment on Mr Wilkinson’s behalf; Milnes should receive the £30 when Wilkinson's salary is paid

Dinner on 10 Aug 1841 to celebrate return of Hon. John Stuart Wortley and E. Denison for the West Riding of Yorkshire

Methodists’ antagonism towards Milnes; fears a misunderstanding

Pontefract petition against Poor Law Act; believes Milnes's poor opinion of Wesleyans would have been revised by hearing speakers at last Wesleyan Missionary meeting

No insult intended in offering Chairmanship to Milnes; Milnes's view of Wesleyans as “an Apology for all other dissenters”; relations with the Anglican Church; difficulties over contributions

R.P. Milnes’ accident; son’s poetry; locality; [postscript]: riding experiences; support for abolition of capital punishment: Pontefract

payments; R.P. Milnes' recovery: Pontefract