Reverend James Wodrow (1730-1810), minister of the Church of
Scotland at Stevenston in Ayrshire, and Samuel Kenrick (1728-1811),
tutor to a Renfrewshire family until 1763, and subsequently a
merchant and banker in Bewdley, Worcestershire, began corresponding
soon after leaving the University of Glasgow in 1750. They
continued to do so until James Wodrow's death in 1810. Unusually,
around 85% of the letters on both sides survive, held in manuscript
in Dr Williams's Library, London. Volume I of this edition covers
the years 1750-1783. Their correspondence is an exceptionally rich
resource for the study of British culture and society in the era of
Enlightenment and revolutions but one which has been underused,
despite its value, and which ought to be much more widely known and
available to scholars working in a range of fields. In lively and
highly readable letters, Wodrow and Kenrick discussed politics,
religion, reform, revolution, theology, international affairs,
society, the economy, education, family, friendship, health, books,
and many other concerns. Sustained over six decades, the
correspondence reveals the lives of two highly literate provincial
men and their families during the high and late Enlightenment, and
the age of revolutions. Because they disagreed on some matters,
notably the American and French Revolutions, they wrote lengthy and
passionately-argued letters about them which are here made easily
available to scholars for the first time. Samuel Kenrick lived in
England from 1765, and the men only met again in 1789, so their
friendship was carried out almost entirely on paper for forty-five
years. The correspondence constitutes a remarkable record of a
friendship.
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