Reynolds, Moreton, Ducie and Lockhart Families Miscellaneous...

Reynolds, Moreton, Ducie and Lockhart Families Miscellaneous Political, Military, Legal and Family Papers, 18th–19th centuries A substantial archive of manuscript correspondence and related papers associated with the Reynolds, Moreton, Ducie, Lockhart and related families, principally 18th and 19th centuries; comprising numerous autograph letters signed, together with unsigned letters, memoranda, legal and financial papers and other manuscripts, principally bifolia and folded letter sheets, many retaining integral address panels or leaves, contemporary dockets, postal markings and wax seals or remnants; condition variable, with old folds, spotting, toning, soiling, marginal tears and losses, occasional old repairs and losses at seal openings, but the majority substantially complete and legible. Among the more significant material: Lord Limerick, Liverpool, [before 24 November 1756], 3 pp., to Francis Reynolds, docketed "Letter from Ld Limerick", extensively repaired; an unusually candid account of aristocratic sexual and social scandal, expressing astonishment that "Lady H—", despite her "insurmountable pride", should descend "to the low familiarity and the rude robust embraces of a footman", with further gossip and repeated injunctions to secrecy; A. Moreton to his father Lord Ducie, Deal Barracks, 18, 22 and 28 March [year unstated], three A.Ls.S. with integral address panels, postal markings and wax seals, forming a sequence concerning Moreton's military career and the proposed purchase of a company, the price calculated at 3,300 guineas before increasing to the "immense sum of three thousand four hundred guineas", the final arrangement awaiting Colonel Jones's resignation; an unidentified correspondent, Whitehall, 24 April 1797, 3 pp., concerning French Revolutionary War naval and military intelligence, Lord Spencer and Lord Grenville, fleet movements and intelligence from a man newly arrived from Brest; and [unidentified correspondent], 11 May 1797, 3 pp., to Lord Ducie, docketed "Government", written immediately after landing with a convoy at St Helens and defending his conduct as "strictly in the execution of my Duty—to my Country". Further highlights include correspondence concerning assisted emigration to Hobart Town and arrangements for "the wife of a convict who is on an indulgence granted by Government" to follow her husband to Van Diemen's Land; an 1821 Trinity College, Cambridge letter discussing electoral qualification and "universal suffrage"; two related papers concerning an application to Lord John Russell for Crown ecclesiastical preferment for the Rev. C. J. Hutton; Anne Stuart, Paris, 1811, two signed receipts recording payments of £1,000 and £2,000; Mary Moreton, an engaging juvenile family letter to her "Dear Grandpapa" describing gardening with her brother Henry; Thomas Reynolds, juvenile letter signed "Your dutiful Son"; Dugald Macdonald to Sir Alexander Macdonald Lockhart, 11 August 1820, concerning government allowances to the Lanarkshire Yeomanry Cavalry for service in suppressing riots and tumults; Hamilton Bland to Sir Charles [Lockhart], concerning an annuity and social arrangements; and Isabella Burrell [Butterworth] to her brother Thomas Reynolds, East Hyde, 12 March 1803; &c. &c. (Q) Also included is a substantial legal sub-archive concerning the Moulton–Wise property dispute at Beckenham, principally 1837, including correspondence and opinions of Sir Henry Thompson, six contemporary numbered bundles retained with red thread, and related papers concerning property and pew rights; together with further political, financial, estate, ecclesiastical, military and family correspondence. The archive offers a broad cross-section of the private, political and administrative lives of several interconnected families across more than a century.

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