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’
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’s; flood at Ferrybridge; cordial reception by R.P. Milnes.
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