Letter to James Harris at Salisbury from Richard Owen Cambridge (1717-1802) [at London]

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9M73/G395/16

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Letter to James Harris at Salisbury from Richard Owen Cambridge (1717-1802) [at London]

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A letter from Richard Owen Cambridge to James Harris, written from London and dated 31 March 1768.

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Richard Owen Cambridge opens the letter with a mention of the Wilkes disturbances in London and goes on to talk about how the people of Geneva are ‘abandoning the foolish notions of liberty put into them by Rouisseau and fomented by Voltaire’.

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Part of the papers of James Harris (1709-80) and his brothers.

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Record created by:

Zoe Screti

Record created on:

30 May 2024