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Το William Franklin (1768) [ People ]
… thankful for his favorable disposition towards me; that, having lived long in England, and contracted a friendship and affection for many persons here, it could not but be agreeable to me to remain among them some time longer, if not for … affair. * Deputy Postmaster-General in America. … "... having lived long in England, and contracted a friendship and affection for many persons here, it could not but be agreeable to me to remain among them some time longer, if not for …
Friendship | Correspondence | North America
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Snuffbox [ Art & Luxury / Clothing & Fashion / Social interaction / Taste & Manners / Rituals & Ceremonies ]
… relationship. Exchanged as gifts, snuffboxes could take part in the art of courting or as reminders and testimonies of affection between friends. Snuffboxes were thus conduits through which emotions circulated between individuals. The … gift of a snuffbox, Joseph Addison ascribes emotion to the object which acts as a material embodiment of their mutual affection: 3 . Lady Mary Campbell Coke, The Letters and Journals of Lady Mary Coke , vol. 2 (Edinburgh: David Douglas, …
Collecting | Consumption | Emotions | Fashion | Friendship | Luxury | North America | Snuff
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Saint Domingue [ Trade / Politics & Society ]
… surnames and replace them with African ones. The sumptuary regulations of 1779 forbade free people of colour ‘from affecting in their clothing, hairstyles, apparel or adornment, in an objectionable assimilation with the ways that white …
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