Gifts and Gift-giving [ Politics & Society / Furniture & Interior decoration / Social interaction ]
… they were unifying ‘civilities’, ‘tokens of respect’ and aides-memoires for guests. This practice spread to New England in the early eighteenth century: Massachusetts governor Jonathan Belcher gave more than a thousand pairs of … and Sheila McIntyre, ‘The Handsome Tokens of a Funeral; Glove-giving and the Large Funeral in Eighteenth Century New England’, The William and Mary Quarterly (vol. 69, n° 2, 2012), p. 305-346. As that failure suggests, gifts were also … ties with princes and to advance their own personal wealth (money that often funded sociable activity on their return to England). In 1772, Robert Clive, who had received £234,000 from the Nawab of Bengal, tried to clarify a distinction …
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