… me to omit an Opportunity [...] M r Boscawen’s Claims are his Father’s Merits, & his only Dependence Lord Chatham’s Friendship’. 13 Despite differences in their political loyalties, Boscawen regularly cajoled her more reclusive friend to … Vere Birdwood (London: His Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1994). 13 . PRO 30/8/22, part II, 25 Jan 27 [sic]. 14 . For her friendship with Delany, see Clarissa Campbell Orr, Mrs Delany: A Life (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, … (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015), p. 115-128. Harcstark Myers, Sylvia, The Bluestocking Circle: Women, Friendship, and the Life of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century England (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990). Heller, Deborah …