… as laudable, 1 and in 1733 Baron Forbes (1685-1765) 2 had no issue entrusting a young Dashwood with vital political correspondence about the ongoing events at the court of St. Petersburg, stating that Dashwood’s presence afforded him the … p. 6. 12 . The letter to Horace Mann on April 14th 1743 can be found in the digitized Yale Edition of Horace Walpole's correspondence by W.S. Lewis: https://walpole.library.yale.edu/online-content/digital-resources/horace-walpole-correspondence, vol. 18, p. 211. 13 . It is difficult to ascertain in what direction, if any, political membership went. …
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… histories, dictionaries, and temporary poems; whence any mean production is called grubstreet .’ 5 . Jonathan Swift, Correspondence, ed. by Harold Williams, 5 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1963–65), vol. I, p. 132–33. From the …
… such as philanthropic societies, reading salons, freemason lodges and Mesmerist harmony societies. Through active correspondence, the Paris club kept their provincial counterparts informed about the debates and events occurring in …
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… surveillance des fréquentations des envoyés. Le plus important de ces fonds est dénommé The Office books of foreign correspondence et regroupe pays par pays les diverses pétitions, mémoires que les envoyés européens ont adressées aux …