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Folder 26

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 26

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Item 1: Cha[rle]s Daubeny, [Bath, Eng.], to Jonathan Boucher, Epsom, [Eng.], 3 March 1801 4 pages. Autograph Letter Signed. Bears seal of Daubeny. (B/5/20). He is sending Boucher some of his sermons intended to publication as a relaxation from etymological research. The British Critic, which he had thought at least Episcopalian, is doing more harm than good to the cause of the Scottish Episcopacy. The Anti-Jacobin Review exaggerates the value of Dr. Randolph's sermons. Item 2: Cha[rle]s Daubeny, Bath, [Eng.], to Jonathan Boucher, Epsom, Surrey, [Eng.], 6 May 1801 4 pages. Autograph Letter Signed. (B/5/21). He has heard nothing from Boucher about the papers he sent him but his nephew [Joshua] Watson says he is very busy and very lazy. A new medical publication by a Dr. Haggarth is said to have been read before the library & Philosophical Society at Bath; such literary juntas, full of half- informed, unprincipled men, are all the fashion; this society, self-constituted at Bath, is headed by infidels and Quakers; the Treasurer is Matthews, the Quaker; Dr. Gibbes [Sir George Smith Gibbes, D.N.B.] is the secretary; Sir George Colebrooke, the President; and Sir William Watson [D.N.B.], the Vice President. Item 3: Charles Daubeny, Bath, [Eng.], to Jonathan Boucher, Epsom, Surrey, [Eng.], 29 May 1801 4 pages.  Autograph Letter Signed.  (B/5/22). He is sending Boucher some further Discourses with a Preface addressed to the younger clergy mentioning Dr. Campbell's work, as Bp. Skinner suggested. Dr. Randolph merely skimmed over a great subject; the admiration of William Stevens ("not my friend") for him is a species of self- idolatry. If Bp. Skinner wishes to see Daubeny's letter to Lord Kinnoul, will Boucher send on his copy [B/5/19]; criticism of Dr. Campbell's book. He knows nothing of Mr. Faber, but as he is a Calvinist, their works will hardly cover the same ground. Item 4: Cha[rle]s Daubeny, N[orth] Bradley, [Eng.], to Jonathan Boucher, Epsom, Surrey, [Eng.], [16 September 1801] 4 pages. Autograph Letter Signed. (B/5/23). He is sending via Joshua Watson, a very handsome letter he received from John Bowden, D.D., Principal of the Episcopal Academy in Connecticut; he is much impressed by the sound principles and seal of both the American and the Scottish Episcopacy. He asks Boucher to help him make his Discourses fit for the press; the lengthy criticism of Dr. Campbell's works needs a more formal introduction. Item 5: John Bowden, Cheshire, Connecticut, to Charles Daubeny, Bath, [Eng.], 18 June 1801 Copy of Autograph Letter Signed. (B/5/24). On behalf of the Convocation of the Episcopal Church in Connecticut he thanks Daubeny for Writing his Guide to the Church . He sent for a copy on reading a review in the Anti-Jacobin , and was so impressed by it that he and his colleagues are determined that it shall be a standard book for candidates for Holy Orders. Expresses admiration and affection for England and its institutions.

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  • Creation: 1759-1803

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From the Collection: 2.17 Linear Feet

Language

English

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