Daughter, Elizabeth, in Salisbury, London, Margate and Cambridge concerning son, Edward's debts and her own financial position

• BOL 2/13, 739X6
• File
• 1795

Part of Bolingbroke Collection

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...

Daughter, Elizabeth

• BOL 2/14, 739X6
• File
• 1797

Part of Bolingbroke Collection

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...

Daughter, Elizabeth

• BOL 2/12, 739X6
• File
• 1793

Part of Bolingbroke Collection

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...

Daughter, Elizabeth Peach and granddaughter, Elizabeth Leathes, from Sandwich (Kent), London and Bromley, (Kent) concerning social life including visit to cricket match at Sevenoaks

• BOL 2/10, 739X6
• File
• 1791

Part of Bolingbroke Collection

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 ...

Revd James Reading [husband], Woodstock: hopes her father is gaining strength.

• BOL 2/9, 739X6
• File
• 18 Dec 1773

Part of Bolingbroke Collection

Elizabeth Reading [daughter], Sion College: went to Mr Peach's to see the King of Denmark go to the Mansion House in the Lord Mayor's state coach; visit to Covent Garden and other social engagements

• BOL 2/8, 739X6
• File
• 25 Sep 1768

Part of Bolingbroke Collection

Letters from Betsy Reading to Edward Leathes and to her father, Revd James Reading, mainly about opposition to her engagement to Leathes; 2 letters from Revd Philip Reading in Pennsylvania.

• BOL 2/4, 739X6
• File
• 1772

Part of Bolingbroke Collection

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...

Betsy and her parents re Betsy's life at school and her social life; Margaret Pryse to Betsy; Philip Reading to James Reading re their brother's death and estate.

• BOL 2/2, 739X6
• File
• 1769-1770

Part of Bolingbroke Collection

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...

Correspondence between Betsy Reading and her parents, and with her future husband Edward Leathes; letters relating to their clandestine marriage in September, and their subsequent stay with Betsy's aunt and uncle at Strumpshaw; letter from Revd Philip Reading to his brother James about his difficulties in America due to the political situation.

• BOL 2/6, 739X6
• File
• 1774

Part of Bolingbroke Collection

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...

Letters between Betsy Reading and Edward Leathes about their engagement and his forthcoming ordination; letters from Betsy to her parents, and from Edward to her father, Revd James Reading, about reconciliation with his father.

• BOL 2/5, 739X6
• File
• 1773

Part of Bolingbroke Collection

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...