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Letters largely concerned with family matters. Relatives mentioned include 'your Aunt Orkney' [Elizabeth Hamilton, Countess of Orkney]; Grace's half-brother Thomas Thynne, 2nd Viscount Weymouth and his wife Louisa, née Carteret, whom he married in the span of these letters; Grace's 'sister [Mary] Graham', 'Lady Granville' [Grace Carteret, 1st Countess Granville], her godmother; her mother Mary, née Villiers, 'unkle' Henry Villiers, and mother's cousin William O'Brien, 4th Earl of Inchiquin; Lord Carteret [later 2nd Earl Granville] and his wife Frances.

Topics of interest in the letters include April Fools (letter 6, 31 Mar. 1733), pick-pocketing at Bartholomew Fair (letter 13, 28 Aug. 1733), and an attack of smallpox suffered by Grace's sister Betty (letter 17, 8 Dec. 1833, and following).

On embossed notepaper, 1A Chesterfield Street, Mayfair. - Seeks Yorkshire School vote for [?] T. Chipchase; his father is their former butler.

61 Hercules Buildings, Lambeth Road, London S.E. - Graham was formerly a railway engineer at Leeds; has suffered in the trade conflicts and seeking work. Postscript: Graham's dignified demeanour caused jealousy. Enclosure: printed address to James Graham from fellow workmen at the North Eastern Railway Locomotive Department, Leeds, 'on his leaving to partake of a better situation'.

Delivery of Pontefract Addresses to the Queen, Prince Albert and the Duchess of Kent [on the Royal Marriage].

Leeds. - Invitation to Annual Dinner of the Leeds Operative Conservative Society.

Whitehall. - Lord John Russell cannot further commute Caroline Parker's sentence for robbery [autograph signature only].

Mattersea. - Re Milnes' appointment as a magistrate.

A note clarifying Macaulay's quote about women of noble families marrying the divines of the time, in response to a claim in Churchill Babington's Mr Macaulay's Character of the Clergy in the Latter Part of the Seventeenth Century Considered.

Knottingley. - Seeking charity school place for his eldest son; gives ages of his other children.

Halstead, Essex. - Originally came to Ferrybridge to be near Mr Pym; did not feel suited in his position; kindness of the Milnes family; Milnes' services to Pontefract should be recognised with a peerage. Postscript: has taken curacy of Little Maplestead for a year.

With footnote by Annabella Hungerford Milnes and engraving of Little Maplestead Church dated 5 May 1853.

Castleford Rectory. - Acknowledges donation towards school; further expenses.

Including re John Auckland and Samuel Naylor.

Harewood. - Poor health; needs assistance; describes herself as 'the Daughter of Nurse Blackburn'; appends husband's name.

Market Place, Pontefract..

Ackworth. - Milnes' mortgage on the Red House and Weeland Turnpike Road; no sum can be named for reduction.

Ackworth. - Notice of meeting of Trustees of the Doncaster and Tadcaster Turnpike Road, 18 Jan. 1859. Contains circular to creditors of the Red House and Weeland Turnpike Roads, 3 Jan. 1859.

5 Peter Street, Jersey. - Thanks Milnes for a gift. Robert Pemberton Milnes had offered to advance money for establishing Atkins in business; needs £45-£50 for a house and stationer's shop; health deteriorating partly through lack of occupation.