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The article deals with correspondence in natural history in the eighteenth century between England and North America. The corpus discussed consists of correspondence between John Bartram and Peter Collinson, and between Alexander Garden and John Ellis. The approach used in the study is qualitative and rhetorical; the main point considered is how the letters construct scientific centre and periphery in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world. A central concept is the "colonial exchange", whereby "raw materials" from the colonies - in this case plant and animal specimens, along with proposed identifications and names - are exchanged for "finished products", in this case codified scientific knowledge contained in publications.

Letters. --- Letter writing. --- Correspondence --- English letter writing --- Letter writing, English --- Writing of letters --- Authorship --- Letters --- Biographical sources --- Literature --- Letter writing

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Letters --- Letter writing --- #KVHA:Brieven --- #KVHA:Communicatie --- #KVHA:Schrijven --- Correspondence --- English letter writing --- Letter writing, English --- Writing of letters --- Authorship --- Biographical sources --- Literature

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Focusing on six examples of printed letters from the period, in this study Diana Barnes develops a genealogy of epistolary discourse in early modern England. She considers how the examples-from the writings of Gabriel Harvey and Edmund Spencer, Angel Day, Michael Drayton, Jacques du Bosque and Margaret Cavendish-manipulate this generic tradition to articulate ideas of community under specific historical and political circumstances.

English letters --- English prose literature --- Letter writing --- Correspondence --- English letter writing --- Letter writing, English --- Writing of letters --- Authorship --- Letters --- History and criticism. --- History

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In My Power tells the story of letter writing and communications in the creation of the British Empire and the formation of the United States. In an era of bewildering geographical mobility, economic metamorphosis, and political upheaval, the proliferation of letter writing and the development of a communications infrastructure enabled middle-class Britons and Americans to rise to advantage in the British Atlantic world.Everyday letter writing demonstrated that the blessings of success in the early modern world could come less from the control of overt political power than from the cultivation of social skills that assured the middle class of their technical credentials, moral deserving, and social innocence. In writing letters, the middle class not only took effective action in a turbulent world but also defined what they believed themselves to be able to do in that world. Because this ideology of agency was extended to women and the youngest of children in the eighteenth century, it could be presented as universalized even as it was withheld from Native Americans and enslaved blacks.Whatever the explicit purposes behind letter writing may have been-educational improvement, family connection, business enterprise-the effect was to render the full terms of social division invisible both to those who accumulated power and to those who did not. The uncontested power that came from letter writing was, Konstantin Dierks provocatively argues, as important as racist violence to the rise of the white middle class in the British Atlantic world.

American letters --- Letter writing --- American literature --- Correspondence --- English letter writing --- Letter writing, English --- Writing of letters --- Authorship --- Letters --- History and criticism. --- History --- American History. --- American Studies.

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Commercial correspondence --- Letter writing --- Commerce --- Business & Economics --- Business Communication --- Business correspondence --- Business letters --- Correspondence, Commercial --- Business writing --- Correspondence --- English letter writing --- Letter writing, English --- Writing of letters --- Authorship --- Letters --- Commercial correspondence. --- Letter writing.