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- 8 September 1801: Painter Joseph Farington hears of food price inflation at Catterick Bridge
- 7 September 1801: Painter Joseph Farington hears about corn speculation and the price of day labour from an intelligent farmer at Kirkbymoorside
- 7 September 1801: Painter Joseph Farington feels overcharged by his Ripon landlord
- 1 September 1801: Painter Joseph Farington dines under the ancient Cowthorpe oak
- 29 August 1801: Painter Joseph Farington arrives at Harrogate
- 29 August 1801: Painter Joseph Farington visits Harewood House
- 27 August 1801: The London painter Joseph Farington reconnoitres Leeds’s public cultural facilities
- 20 June 1795: The London painter Joseph Farington hears from a solicitor the details of the slavery-financed will of Edwin Lascelles, 1st Baron Harewood and builder of Harewood House
- 6 December 1794: London painter Joseph Farington gets gossip from a pupil about colleague William Hodges’ visit to Walter Fawkes at Farnley Hall, some years before Fawkes met Turner
- 30 December 1779: Tombstone epitaph for William Carleill of Ecclesfield Hall (Sheffield), who died today aged 84
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