Saratoga Springs (as a North American iteration of spa sociability) [ Sports & Leisure ]
… long eighteenth-century. Places > Sports & Leisure Mots-clés Colonies Cosmopolitanism Health Leisure North America Spa Travel The spa was an important location for eighteenth-century sociability, operating as a kind of open space where the … Joseph Meredith Toner Collection, Men and times of the revolution; or, Memoirs of Elkanah Watson, including journals of travels in Europe and America, fromto 1842, with his correspondence with public men and reminiscences and incidents of … Institution Press, 2002). Opinions regarding how well these efforts may have succeeded were somewhat divided. European travellers, it would seem, were not overly impressed. In September 1827, Basil Hall found them to be agreeable but empty …
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