William Gilpin and picturesque unsociability [ Art and Literature ]
… in his letters. When his grand-children visited him, he kept to his study. 3 With his friends, he preferred epistolary exchanges to conversation as his son William explained bluntly in an unpublished note kept at the Bodelian library: Some … Newton, Rev. Dr. Claudius Buchanan, &c., &c. (London: R. Cruttwell, 1817) p. 172-173. Logically enough, the letters he exchanged with William Mason, Mary Delany and his grandson William largely focus on his solitary relationship to nature, …
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