Wodrow-Kenrick Correspondence
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Friends corresponding during the age of Enlightenment, Revolution and Romanticism: Rev. James Wodrow in Ayrshire, and Samuel Kenrick, a banker in Worcestershire
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The Wodrow-Kenrick Correspondence, 1750–1810, held in manuscript at Dr Williams's Library, London, and in the process of being edited for publication by Oxford University Press. Vol. 1 (1750–1783) published 2020. Thanks to @Drwilliams_Lib and @oup.
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'Many things have happened since the date of your last which will have vexed your righteous Spirit. But you have thoroughly entered into the maxim nil desperandum de Republica & I may add de Libertate.' Wodrow to Kenrick, 30 May 1792. Upwards and onwards. @AnthonyPage10
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Fabulous Scottish version of the butterfly effect: 'A midge’s wing may be the mother of mischief'. Wodrow to Kenrick, 14 May 1796. @AnthonyPage10 @ECSStirling
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RT @DrMatthewSweet: This is beautiful. And those of us who work with written archives see that letters retain this power and can exert it o…
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… would look well enough still. I never had anything like it either in colour wear or feeling: it feels like silk to this day; nor in thickness or warmth. In vain did I attempt to get its equal at Glasgow.'
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With thanks to many friends for all their help and enthusiasm for this project. Onwards to volume 3, 1791–97. @AnthonyPage10 @ECSStirling @ustirhistpol
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A transcribed ad enclosed with one of Kenrick's letters in Sept. 1791 alleged that letters had been forged accusing Joseph Priestley and others of treason: 'Such barefaced villainy at the end of the 18th Century in England!' @AnthonyPage10
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to Government: but woud lead them only by higher principles before they are sufficiently enlightened to follow them. Burke on the other hand lays too much stress on prejudice and custom, so much in my opinion as to destroy all difference between right & wrong.' @AnthonyPage10
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'It seems perfectly undoubted whatever debt they may have paid that they are at present in the utmost straits for money to answer the ordinary purposes of Govt.' James Wodrow, 16 June 1791.
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… in this country, that he could not & would not have commanded a majority in the house of Commons?– if you do– your faith is much stronger than mine.' Samuel Kenrick, 18 May 1791. @AnthonyPage10 @ECSStirling @DiariesProject
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