… 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, …