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News from abroad : letters written by British travellers on the Grand Tour, 1728-71

Provides a selection of private letters written to family and friends from a variety of people while they were on the Grand Tour (via Paris, through France and across the Alps via the terrifying Mount Cenis, to Rome) in the eighteenth century. The selection emphasises diversity, juxtaposing for example the letters of a conscientious young nobleman like Lyttelton with those of the excitable philanderer Boswell, or the well-travelled aristocratic lady, Caroline Lennox. While the travellers represented here follow much the same route in the pursuit of learning and pleasure, the Tour turns out to mean something quite different to each of them.

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