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The Correspondence of the Spalding Gentlemen's Society, 1710-1761 (Hardcover, Annotated Ed)
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The Correspondence of the Spalding Gentlemen's Society, 1710-1761 (Hardcover, Annotated Ed)
Series: Publications of the Lincoln Record Society
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Annotated edition of erudite letters from the eighteenth-century
sheds light on intellectual life at the time. One of the more
remarkable survivals from sociable eighteenth-century England is
the Spalding Gentlemen's Society. Founded in 1710 in Spalding in
the south Lincolnshire Fens by the local barrister Maurice Johnson,
to encourage thegrowth of "friendship and knowledge", it received
hundreds of letters from correspondents across Britain and
overseas. Concerned with such matters as antiquities, natural
philosophy, numismatics, mathematics, literature and the arts, they
were collated by Johnson to provide material for the Society's
weekly Thursday meetings. This detailed calendar brings together
the 580 letters to survive, from some 154 correspondents. 119 were
members of the Spalding Society, including well-known figures of
the intellectual world: Martin Folkes, Roger Gale, William
Stukeley, many Freemasons and three secretaries of the Royal
Society and the Society of Antiquaries. The letters are fully
annotated and indexed; fifty-four are transcribed in full. They
provide a vivid picture of the interests of the "curious" and
demonstrate how knowledge spread during the eighteenth century.
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