2/13/1-6 Elizabeth Peach [daughter], Salisbury, London, Margate, Cambridge: principally about money - her son Edward's extravagance and debts to her - £120 a year is sufficient for a man to appear like a gentleman at Cambridge - essential he...
2/14/1-4 Elizabeth Peach [daughter], London, Charlbury Place, Shillinglee Park: news of friends - 'I am living here very pleasantly & without any expense, why therefore cannot you let me enjoy a little happiness uninterrupted? You know h...
2/12/1-25 Elizabeth Peach [daughter], Sundridge and London: family news, social engagements, worries about money, dismay at son Edward's impetuosity and expenditure on clothes [many with pages to son Edward at Norwich, rebuking him for child...
2/10/1,6,9,13,15 Elizabeth Peach [daughter, formerly Leathes], Sundridge, Kent [home of her second husband, Edward Peach], and London: investments, social engagements, they are going into mourning for her cousin William Nelson; including letters ...
2/4/1-4 Jan-Mar 1772, Betsy Reading, Woodstock, to Edward Leathes, Bury and Strumpshaw: has told Margaret Pryse of their engagement - she thinks she and Mr L[oveden] will never come together as her father does not approve; thinks he should not ac...
2/2/1 11 Apr 1769 Revd James Reading, Woodstock [sic] to Betsy Reading, Woodstock: details of journey to London; had discussion with Mr Peach about her affairs which he will tell her about when he returns home; executorship affairs in a perplex...
2/5/1-4, 10-13, 15 Mar-Aug 1774 letters between Betsy Reading, at Charlbury House, and her parents at Woodstock, including from Revd James Reading suggesting she views Saturn's ring through Mr Holloway's telescope [2].Letters between B...
2/5/1, 3-19,21,23-4, 28-9, 30-6, 39-40, 42-5, 47-50 Jan- Dec 1773, letters between Betsy Reading, mainly at Woodstock, and Edward Leathes, at Bury and Strumpshaw: he professes his love, regrets past errors, and sends turgid poetry; she promises n...