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].