Letter from Joseph Henry Kay, Henrietta Emillia Anna Kay and Mary Anne Kay to their uncle Sir John Franklin Discrete text from each writer.  Content includes accounts of a family stay in Hastings with visits to Folkestone and Dover; in Hastings they saw a stone-laying ceremony at St Mary's in the Castle;  the purchase of a harp: Mary Anne getting some tuition from Miss Le Goyt, but the family cannot afford a teacher; theatre visits.  Mary Anne and William have checked books in the attic and report that Lady Thomas and family are keeping the house clean.  There are factual items about a wide range of individuals and events, both those significant to the family (such as "old nurse Dixon" and "your old cook") and those with national or international significance (such as naming Venables as the new lord mayor; listing the death of Lord Radstock; the crowning of Charles the Tenth; Mr and Mrs Graham's balloon falling into the sea near Plymouth, and the wrecking of a ship, the Baron Renfrew, off the coast of Calais. 17 Feb 1826