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Docketed ‘Extracts From The Chæv: D’Æon’s Book’. The extracts relate to the Duke of Nevers (Nivernais).

First words: ‘If justice and goodness be not the same in God …’.

First words: ‘Pleasure and pain accompany almost every idea …’.

Dated at Terrace, Richmond. Numbered 19.

Numbered 24.

Curzon Street, (London).—Is unable to see him before he goes to Paris or write him an introductory letter to Mrs Graham.

(Dated Friday, 4 Dec. Numbered 34.)

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Curzon St Friday 4 Dec[embe]r

I am sorry not to be able to see you before you go to Paris, & not at present in a state of mind to write you such an introductory letter, as I should wish, to Mrs Graham—But you will find many persons at Paris who will introduce you to her, & when you return, I hope I shall be able to profit by your account of your intercourse with her, & with your view of the present curious state of the public mind at Paris—I am always very sincerely y[ou]rs

M Berry

Curzon Street, (London).—Sends a message to introduce him to Mrs Graham.

(Black-edged paper. Dated Monday, 14 Dec. Numbered 35.)

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Curzon St Mond[a]y 14 Dec[embe]r

I was much obliged to you for your note from Boulogne, & shall be made more obliged to you if you will write to me from Paris—As it is a country I am not a stranger to I shall understand you à demi mot—

If you are not already introduced to Mrs Graham, which I have no doubt is the case—Shew her the lines I have written on the other side of this Sheet, {1} & I think you will need no other introduction—

Pray do not let the agréemens† of Paris detain you too long from your friends in London among whom I hope you will always reckon—

M Berry

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{1} i.e. the other half of the folded sheet, which was presumably torn off and given to Mrs Graham.

† Sic.

Marked ‘Revise and 1st Proof’.

Caen.—Asks for about thirty armed men to be sent to St Vaast, where a gathering of Chouans is expected on 3 April. A man named Dufresne has been replaced as a military agent because he was thought to be engaged in suspicious activities.

(Dated 13 Germinal, an 4. Certified by Lévêque as a true copy.)

Caen.—A Chouan has attempted to obtain money from a judge in return for securing peace at Courson. Encloses ff. 16 and 17.

(Dated 28 Pluviôse, an 4. Letter-head of the Commissaire du Directoire Exécutif, près l’Administration Départementale du Calvados.)

Lisieux.—The peace of the canton of Livarot has been disturbed by the threats and attacks of Chouans. Several properties have been raided and some republicans have been kidnapped. Encloses a letter from a leader of the Chouans demanding money from two residents of Courson (see f. 17). Asks him to send armed troops to Courson immediately, as the garde nationale is unable to fight.

(Dated 28 Pluviôse, an 4. Certified by Lévêque as a true copy.)

A threatening letter addressed to a republican, who is described as a partisan of Robespierre.

(The message concludes, ‘Nous sommes Les amis de lordre social et de la Royauté’. Certified as a true copy by Lévêque.)

Caen.—Encloses f. 26.

(Dated 15 Ventôse, an 4. Letter-head of the Commissaire du Directoire Exécutif, près l’Administration Départementale du Calvados.)

Beaumont.—On the night of 4–5 March about 150 Chouans gathered at Pierrefitte (Pierrefitte-en-Auge) and St Hymer and committed robberies, after which they took refuge in the Château de Reux. Complains of the behaviour of the soldiers of the 3e Compagnie franche, who did not do their duty in fighting the Chouans.

(Certified by Lévêque as a true copy.)

Motto: ‘Quo liciat [sic] libris non licet ire mihi, | Turpiter huc illuc ingeniosus eo’ (an adaptation of Ovid, Amores, III. viii. 6, 8). First line: ‘Hear me, dull Prostitute, worse than a Wife’. The attribution to Dryden in the title is satirical.

First line: ‘For Warwick, she keeps two Stallions in pay’.

First line: ‘Who wou’d have thought my ruin was so near’.

Heading continues: ‘To the Tune of Cheviot Chase’. First line: ‘Come all you Youths, that yet are free’.

First line: ‘Here lies a Creature of Indulgent Fate’.

First line: ‘Hast thou no Friend so kind, to let thee know’. Subscribed ‘Earl of Dorset.’

First line: ‘Damon that Author of so great renown’.

Headed ‘A Letter from Mr Dryden, to Sir George Etheridge.’ First line: ‘To you, who live in Chill Degree’.

First line of ‘The Argument’ (6 lines): ‘Nan & Frank, two quondam Friends’. First line of the main poem, headed ‘Canto’: ‘Of Civil Dudgeon many a Bard’.

First line: ‘Under this Stone do’s lye’.

First line (after speech-heading): ‘While I in the Camp’.

Made (fecit) by (Jacobus?) Harrewijn. The print is closely trimmed.

Drawn by O’Neil. Engraved by H. Roberts. Published on 10 July 1781 by P. Mitchell, North Audley Street, Grosvenor Square, and J. Fielding, 23 Pater Noster Row.