Gifts and Gift-giving [ Politics & Society / Furniture & Interior decoration / Social interaction ]
… of another, nor despise ‘the impropriety of them’ because a ‘gift (saith Solomon) fastneth friendships […] so must the love of friends sometimes be refreshed with material and low Caresses; lest by striving to be too divine it becomes less … the English consul in Algiers. 7 . Diary of Samuel Pepys, ed. Henry Wheatley (London: George Bell, 1893), 9 Sept. 1664. Gloves and engraved rings were common items in the eighteenth century – in death at funerals, as well as in life, at … New England in the early eighteenth century: Massachusetts governor Jonathan Belcher gave more than a thousand pairs of gloves when his father died in 1717 and again when his wife Mary died nineteen years later, whilst Peter Faneuil …
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