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· INTELLECTUAL LIFE IN THE COLON IAL SOUTH ' the purpose of publication. Certainly, along with the Reminiscences and the Discourses, they form the most voluminous record of Loyalist thinking in the southern colonies. They are also well-written documents revealing much on church, education, and social life. Among those letters already published is a 1759 communication to an English cleric, the Reverend Mr. James of St. Bees, Cumberland, from Port Royal on the Rappahannock River in Virginia, and to James' wife: 'Tis true, whether from ye Climate, or their Manner of Education, being early introduc'd into Company, & soon commencing ripe, they are of a livelier, readier wit than we in Engl'd, in a general way, may boast of . ... They live and dress well, all without any Labour & almost with'd any Concern of their own . ... I assure you, Mr. James, the common Planter's Daughters here go every Day in finer Cloaths than I have seen content you for a Summer's Sunday . ... they tell me I may see in Virginia more brilliant Assemblies than I ever e'd in the North of Engl'd, and except Royal ones perhaps in any part of it. Twelve days later he describes a clergyman, Isaac Giberne, a man frequently mentioned in the Landon Carter diary, who may have influenced Boucher in becoming an Anglican minister. Boucher's verbal portrait is by no means entirely favorable, as it is not in his later Reminiscences of an American Loyalist. One playful yet earnest letter addressed to the Reverend Henry Addison of Maryland, announcing Boucher's intention of marrying Addison's niece, is long, philosophical, poetic, and full of learned allusions perhaps designed to impress his future relative. He may be a little coy, but he carries the witty image of the lady as an attractive bit of real estate throughout the long epistle, beginning Dear Sir, Ashamed and weary of this unproductive and unprofitable course of life, I resolve to turn planter. There is in your neighborhood a charming little plantation, unoccupied by anybody, which I think would exactly suit my purpose. As to buying it, that is out of the question; it is not venal, nor to be disposed of to the highest bidder; nor, if it were, have I wealth enough to buy it. If it were to be sold for what it is worth, the wealth of the Indies could not purchase it. I should indeed like to have it seiz'd in tail, which as I am sure I should never be disposed to part with it, might answer my purposes as well as a fee-simple. However, I shall think myself quite happy to get it on a lease for lives.lss In North Carolina there were well-expressed letters beginning in 1709 with those of John Lawson to James Petiver on natural history, the many sent back by missionaries and now in the archives of the S.P.G., Baron von Graffenreid's account of the expedition among the Indians ending in Lawson's tragic death, and Major Christopher Gale's version of the same
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