Letters from Jonathan Boucher to Sir Frederick Morton Eden

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Box 1, Folder 16

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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.

Jona[tha]n Boucher to Sir Fred[eric]k M[orton] Eden, London, [Eng.], 20 March 1794 2 pages. Autograph Letter Signed. [pasted inside 9 March 1794.] (A/3/8). He has written to the Archbishop of Canterbury about the Edinburgh business. He is coming to town and will stay with the Edens, if convenient. Thanks the Edens for their "late kindness which will make me a free man for at least a year to come."

Jona[tha]n Boucher, Epsom, [Eng.] to Sir Fred[eric]k [Morton Eden], 23 Ap[ri]l 1794 2 pages. Autograph Letter Signed. (A/3/9). He is much grieved by the death of his sister [Jinny]. He is sorry that Eden is in difficulties over the house he bought, and suggests that he ask his father-in-law [James Paul Smith] for a loan, for which he will stand security.

J[onathan] B[oucher], Epsom, [Eng.] to Sir Fred[eric]k M[orton] Eden, London, [Eng.], 13 July 1794 3 pages. Autograph Letter Signed. (A/3/10). He is glad that Eden's financial difficulties have been settled, but as his income is only 800 p.a. and his expenses at least 1000 p.a. he urges economy; however, he should remain hopeful about the future. Comments on a business arrangement with Messrs Whites in Fleet Street. He sends his good wishes to Eden's wife, who is pregnant.

J[onathan] B[oucher], Epsom, [Eng.] to Sir Frederick M[orton] Eden, on the Northern Circuit, 14 Aug[us]t 1794 3 pages. Autograph Letter Signed. (A/3/11). He hopes that Eden, who is on the Northern Circuit, has made some gleanings for his Magnum Opus [The State of the Poor]; if he is near Carlisle, he should meet Mr. Houseman who has traversed Cumberland to make agricultural reports and who is making out for Boucher an account of land in that county belonging to absentees, and of tillage etc. Boucher has estimated the Poor Rate for his own native village [Blencogo] at sixpence in the pound. He has had an agreeable visit from the Rev. Mr. Herbert Croft [later Sir Herbert Croft, D.N.B.] a fellow lexicographer. Comments that a book on "The Present State of France" is ill written and badly translated.

J[onathan] B[oucher] to Sir Frederick [Morton] Eden, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, [Eng.], [May 1796] 2 pages. Autograph Letter Signed. (A/3/12). He declines an invitation to visit Eden until he has got through "A" [of his Glossary]. He considers Pitt's Bill [to change the Poor Law] paltry and impracticable.

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English

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