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- 5 August 1835 (Creation)
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The Hey family were resident in York in the 19th century. The family was intermarried with the Gray family of Grays solicitors, York, and associated papers can be found in the business collection (reference GDC) and the family collection (reference GFP).
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The first of three letters describing a trip to Scotland and plans for his father to join him and his friends. He has already written from Dumbarton but left the unposted letters in the coach! Full details of trip given: steamer Liverpool-Glasgow (Colonsay must be mistake for Rothesay). Dumbarton- Loch Lomond - Tarbet - ascent of Ben Lomond with a Whytehead of York - with friends to church service at Arrochar, the preaching in English in church and in Gaelic in churchyard: to Inveraray on foot, rowing across Loch Fyne - dined with Cambridge men and saw Inveraray Castle and grounds: 8 hours to Oban and caught 4 pm boat: pleased with Staffa and Iona and proposing to go to Loch Awe to fish. Suggestion for meeting father at Fort William.: asks for loan of £5 which can be repaid at home.
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- English