Francis Dashwood [ Association / Associational culture ]
… a navy officer and diplomat who acted as an envoy to the Russian court under Czarina Anna between 1733 and 1734. 3 . The letter can be found at the National Archives, Kew, with the reference: SP 91/14/142. Dashwood was a well-traveled man. … the sudden attention to the story of a hermit who ‘enjoyed most of the country girls all about’ ( ibid ), and the letter of Lady Montagu, who wrote to Lady Mar in 1740 that during his second stay in Italy Dashwood spent all his days … between the legs of ‘a female figure of justice’, 11 points to a sense of ribaldry permeating their gatherings. In a letter to Horace Mann, Walpole famously commented that they were ‘a club, for which the nominal qualification is having …
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