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… Duke of Marlborough, Sir Hans Sloane, the Duchess of Portland, the Duke of Cumberland, the Earl of Shelburne, Sir Robert Walpole, the utilitarian philosopher Jeremy Bentham, and many others used to collect exotic animals in their private … de Voltaire, A Letter from Mr. Voltaire to Mr. Jean Jacques Rousseau (London: Payne, 1766), p. 35. 4 . ‘William Mason to Horace Walpole, 2 June 1773’, in Warren Hunting Smith and George Lam (eds.), Horace Walpole’s Correspondence 1756-1799 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1955), p. 90-91. ‘It is, however, most …
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