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Jonathan Bouche[r], P[or]t Royal, [Va.] to [Joseph] Tickell, Louisa County, [Va.], 16 Dec[embe]r 1762 3 pages. Autograph Letter Signed. (A/2/1). He reproaches Tickell for not answering his letter. A box containing letters to them both from home was on board the Welcome, which was lost in Spain; it falls to him to inform Tickell that his mother and his eldest sister are both dead. Boucher's friend Tom Robinson has been killed in Germany.

Jona[tha]n Boucher, Epsom, [Eng.] to Sir Frederick [Morton Eden], 3 Nov[embe]r 1786 2 pages. Autograph Letter Signed (A/3/1). While Eden was in Paris, police discipline made him write, but since his return to England, Boucher has had no letter. He invites Eden and his friend Deverell of Oriel to spend Christmas with him. He has sent him a letter introducing Mr. Zimmermann of Brunswick.

J[onathan] B[oucher] to Sir Frederick [Morton] Eden, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, England, 16 June 1796 1 page. Autograph Letter Signed. (A3/13). He is sending some notes which Eden may be able to use in his book. Buried a Miss Boucher whose brother "wants to make it out that they & I are related."

Jona[tha]n Boucher to Sir Fred[eri]c[k] M[orton] Eden, London, [Eng.], 9 March 1794 1 pages. Autograph Letter Signed. (A/3/7). He is coming to town with Mr. Stevens [see B/3] on Tuesday and will dine with Eden. Requests a meeting with Capt[ai]n Eden "to settle everything" at Sir Frederick's house.

Item 1: Sir] Frederick Morton Eden, Ch[rist] Ch[urch], Oxford, [Eng], to Jon[athan] Boucher, Epsom, [Eng.], 8 Nov. 1786 2 pages. Autograph Letter Signed. Bears seal. (B/4/1). He has been entertaining Mr. Zimmerman [see A/3/1] in Oxford. He agrees with Boucher on the subject of the Commercial Treaty with France and thinks that more might have been done. Problems with "Billy's Commission" by which he lost 6 months rank. Hopes to come to Epsom soon. Item 2: [Sir] Frederick Morton Eden, Lambeth Palace, [Eng], to [Jonathan Boucher], 18 May 1787 2 pages. Autograph Letter Signed. (B/4/2). He cannot visit Boucher next week as Mrs. Moore [the Archbishop's wife, and Eden's aunt] has promised him a seat in the Prebend's Box, for the Abbey Commemoration. He hopes, however, to see Boucher at the end of the month and will be happy to be introduced to Mrs. Boucher. Item 3: [Sir] Frederick Morton Eden, Lambeth Palace, [Eng], to Jonathan Boucher, Epsom, [Eng.], 18 June 1787 3 pages. Autograph Letter Signed. (B/4/3). He is keeping this term at the Temple. Mr. Eden [his uncle, William Eden, later Earl of Auckland] is appointed as Ambassador to Spain. Everyone is sick at Lambeth; a fever has killed a number of children. Item 4: [Sir] F[rederick] M[orton] Eden, Tunbridge Wells, [Eng], to [Jonathan] Boucher, Epsom, Surrey, [Eng.], 29 July 1788 3 pages. Autograph Letter Signed. Bears a seal. (B/4/4). Tunbridge is full of old Dowagers of quality and discarded statesmen; he has dined with Lord North whose blindness has not affected his spirits. The Loyalists are still waiting for some compensation from the Government; he is less hopeful than his mother. He sends a curious inscription which he found on a gravestone in Kent. Item 5: [Sir] F[rederick] M[orton] E[den], to Jon[athan] Boucher, Epsom, Surrey, [Eng.], [postmark 21 July 1791] 1 page. Autograph Letter Signed. (B/4/5). He is unable to dine with Boucher as he has to meet some lawyers who are going on the Northern Circuit. He has heard that Burke is producing a new pamphlet next week.

Item 1: [Sir] F[rederick] M[orton] E[den], Lincoln's Inn Fields, [England] to Jon[athan] Boucher, Epsom, Surrey, [Eng.], 25 Jan. 1792 3 pages. Autograph Letter Signed. (B/4/6). His mother, Lady Eden, has been in poor health; his wife [daughter of James Paul Smith] is also unwell. The Chancellor has given him a Commissionership of Bankrupt [sic]. Item 2: [Sir] F[rederick] M[orton] Eden, No. 100 New Bond Street, [Eng.], to [Jonathan Boucher], [Eden], 12 Nov. 1792 3 pages. Autograph Letter Signed.(B/4/7). He has been reading Necker [Jacques Necker, French minister and financier] but finds he takes too much for granted in his arguments. He quotes from Harrington's Oceana, written 1656, a prophetic passage about the future of France. Item 3: [Sir] F[rederick] M[orton] E[den], London, [Eng.], to Jon[athan] Boucher, Epsom, Surrey, [Eng.], 10 May 1743 2 pages. Autograph Letter Signed (B/4/8). Boucher's partnership with Hutchinson [William Hutchinson; D.N.B.; topographer, to whose Cumberland Boucher had contributed articles] will be scarcely dissolved before, as his Prospectus announces, he begins under a new firm. Item 4: [Sir] F[rederick M[orton] E[den] to [Jonathan] Boucher, undated [fragment 1797?] 1 page. Autograph Note Signed. (B/4/9). He has sent Boucher a questionnaire [perhaps to gather information for his book The State of the Poor ]. He joined in praise of Boucher's sermons at a large dinner. Item 5: [Sir] F[rederick M[orton] E[den], Worthing, [Eng.], to [Jonathan Boucher], 27 July 1800 1 page. Autograph Letter Signed. (B/4/10). (Keppell's disgrace and my little girl's birthday). He and Lady Eden will arrive at Epsom on Monday. He has read Lucien Bonaparte's speech of 14 July and finds it a most eloquent invective against Revolutions. Its purpose, Anglice, is "keep my Brother, the First Consul, as long as you can"; but he does not agree with his Eulogium on the theft of treasures from the Pope. Item 6: [Sir] F[rederick M[orton] E[den], W[orthing], [Eng.], to Jonathan Boucher, Rottingdean, [Eng.]4 Aug. 1800 1 page. Autograph Letter Signed. (B/4/11). He laments over the English climate. He considered Burns a poet of great descriptive powers, pastoral humour and pathos, and regrets that he should have had such a melancholy fall. He quotes some lines from Cowper's "Retirement" about philologists. The Committee of the House of Commons has passed five or six Resolutions for the improvement of the Metropolis identical to those in Porto Bello [Eden's book on the Improvement of the Port & City of London, 1798].

Item 1: [William Stevens], Broadstreet, [London, Eng.] to John [Boucher] i.e., [Jonathan Boucher], 17 May 1777 1 page, Autograph Letter Signed. Signed with monogram. (B/3/1). There is to be a hurried meeting of the Committee. He has endeavored to make Boucher's peace with Dr. Glasse [Rev. Samuel Glasse; D.N.B.]. "No engagement that may not be postponed to Bishop-making." Item 2: [William Stevens], Broadstreet, [London, Eng.], to [Jonathan Boucher], 17 June 1777 1 page. Autograph Letter signed. Signed with monogram. (B/3/2). He attended the Committee but there was no great business. Item 3: [William Stevens], Broadstreet, [London, Eng.], to Jonathan [Boucher], 12 Sept[embe]r 1777 1 page. Autograph Letter Signed. Signed with monogram. (B/3/3). Boucher and Mr. Addison are invited to the meeting at the Chaplain's Table tomorrow to drink Church and King like the Tories of old time. Item 4: [William Stevens], Broadstreet, [London, Eng.], to Jonathan [Boucher], 24 September 1777 1 page. Autograph Letter Signed. Signed with monogram. (B/3/4). He invites Boucher to Broadstreet and will advise him if he really wishes it. Item 5: [William Stevens], Broadstreet, [London, Eng.], to [Jonathan Boucher], 1 Dec. 1777 1 p. ALS. signed with monogram. (B/3/5). Enclosed is the fall of the Leaf [?]. Is Boucher continuing his Historico-Politico-Theological work?

Item 1: [William Stevens], Broadstreet, [London, Eng.], to [Jonathan] Boucher, 9 April 1778 1 page. Autograph Letter Signed. Signed with monogram. (B/3/6). Stevens will call on Boucher with the Rector of Otham [his cousin, William Horne]. Item 2: [William Stevens], Broadstreet, [London, Eng.], to Jonathan Boucher, 9 July 1778 1 page. Autograph Letter Signed. Signed with monogram. (B/3/7). His time is taken up by rival commitments; he wishes Boucher success with his school, and enquires after Nelly's health. Item 3: [William Stevens], Broadstreet, [London, Eng.], to [Jonathan Boucher], 11 Nov. 1779 1 page. Autograph Letter Signed. Signed with monogram. (B/3/9). Hopes to see Boucher shortly to discuss the business of his previous letter. Item 4: [William Stevens], London, [Eng.], to [Jonathan Boucher], 22 April 1780 1 page. Autograph Letter Signed. Signed with monogram. (B/3/9a). He is sorry to hear of Boucher's ill health.

Item 1: [William Stevens] to [Jonathan] Boucher, 11 Jan[uar]y 1782 1 page. Autograph Letter Signed. Signed with monogram. (B/3/10). He has sent Boucher's bill for acceptance, but this cannot be done in time for his purposes. He has lent 200 to the Rector of Hanwell [Dr. Glasse]. He and Old Jones will visit Boucher on Sunday. Item 2: [William Stevens], London, [Eng.], to [Jonathan Boucher], 17 April 1782 1 page. Autograph Letter Signed. Signed with monogram. (B/3/11). He hopes to see Boucher on Friday at Bow Church. He has heard that a legacy to a refugee American clergyman by a pious lady has been disputed by her relatives [probably a reference to the legacy left to Boucher by Miss Mary Barton, the daughter of a silk merchant, who died in 1782]. Item 3: [William Stevens], London, [Eng.], to [Jonathan] Boucher, Paddington, [Eng.], 13 June 1782 1 page. Autograph Letter Signed. Signed with monogram. (B/3/12). He intends to dine with Boucher on Friday. Item 4: [William Stevens], London, [Eng.], to [Jonathan] Boucher, Paddington Green, [Eng.], 26 May 1783 2 pages. Autograph Letter Signed. (B/3/13). He has read the Country Curate's Letter to the Bishop of Llandaff and wishes it success. The Board [? of Queen Anne's Bounty] is to meet and he has been asked to draw up detailed accounts. Item 5: [William Stevens], London, [Eng.], to [Jonathan Boucher], 7 July 1784 1 page. Autograph Letter Signed. Signed with monogram. (B/3/14). Boucher's 100 annuity is bought for 1708 7s 6d. Item 6: [William Stevens], London, [Eng.], to [Jonathan] Boucher, Paddington Mid[dlese]x, [Eng.], 27 Aug. 1784 2 pages. Autograph Letter Signed. Signed with monogram. (B/3/15). Stevens has visited Dr. Chandler [possibly Richard Chandler; D.N.B., classical antiquary]. Boucher is to visit Cardigan, Carmarthen and Cardiff. Stevens has not yet had Boucher's drafts accepted; he is going to Canterbury with Old Jones.

Item 1: W[illiam] [Stevens], London, [Eng.], to [Jonathan Boucher], 15 Sept. 1784 1 page. Autograph Letter Signed. Signed with monogram. (B/3/16). He is directing this letter to Cyfarthfa where Boucher will be staying for two weeks; he hopes to see him in London on his return from Canterbury. Item 2: [William Stevens], London, [Eng.], to [Jonathan Boucher], 26 Nov[embe]r 1784 1 page. Autograph Letter Signed. Signed with monogram. (B/3/17). Murder will out! He has been charged with the authorship of the Tract. Item 3: [William Stevens], London, [Eng.], to [Jonathan Boucher], 30 Nov[embe]r 1784 1 page. Autograph Letter Signed. Signed with monogram. (B/3/18). He has been to Epsom and seen Boucher's patron and his patron's patron; he was obliged to leave Boucher's mare at Ewell. Item 4: [William Stevens], Broadstreet, to [Jonathan] Boucher, Paddington Green, [Eng.], 11 March 1785 2 pages. Autograph Letter Signed. Signed with monogram. (B/3/19). He and Boucher are invited to visit Sam Glasse [Vicar of Epsom, D.N.B.] on Saturday, but as his Audit is to take place on that day, he may not be able to come. Item 5: [William Stevens], London, [Eng.], to [Jonathan Boucher], 6 Sept[embe]r 1785 2 pages. Autograph Letter Signed. Signed with monogram. (B/3/20). He hopes this letter does not miss Boucher at Caen [Boucher had accompanied Lord Suffield's son to Brunswick, and was returning to England with Delves, son of Sir Thomas Broughton]; Dr. Morrice [probably Secretary of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel] feels that Boucher slighted him in not telling him about his tour till the last possible moment. Mr. Parkhurst [partron of Boucher's now living of Epsom] says that the library is ready to receive his books. Item 6: [William Stevens], Otham, [Eng.], to [Jonathan] Boucher, Caen, Normandie, [France], 12 Sep 1785 3 pages. Autograph Letter Signed. Signed with monogram. (B/3/21). He has received Boucher's letter from Rheims; Sir Thomas Broughton has not contacted him. Dr. Morrice insists he had no wish to be rid of Boucher; he has acted only in the interests of the Society. Stevens has seen the Archbishop [of Canterbury] who has hopes that Sir Guy Carleton, the new Commander-in-Chief in America, will restore order there. The publication of Johnson's Prayers and Meditations has re-opened the question of prayers for the dead, for which Boucher once pleaded. Item 7: [William Stevens], London, [Eng.], to [Jonathan Boucher], 9 Dec[embe]r 1785 1 page. Autograph Letter Signed. Signed with monogram. (B/3/22). Stevens invites Boucher to dine with him on Monday and reminds him that he is to dine with Mr. Frere on Friday [John Frere, D.N.B., antiquary]