Making Men : a Sourcebook.

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This edited collection of correspondence written by members of English landed gentry families provides insights into the formation, experience and practice of elite masculine identities. The source book examines continuities and changes in such processes within the male life cycle and across the early modern and modern periods. Cover Title Copyright Contents Acknowledgements Preface Biographies of Principal Correspondents Introduction The Letters Personal Sources and the History of Masculinity Masculinity and the Landed Gentry Letter Writing in History Notes on Language and Organisation 1 Schooling. Educational and Extracurricular Accomplishments 1.1 John Saunders, Schoolmaster, to Richard Coffi n, 19 November 1691 1.2 John Coffi n, to his mother, Ann Coffi n, No Date, c. 1694. 1.3 Patrick St Clair, Clergyman and tutor of William Windham, to Ashe Windham, of Felbrigg, Norfolk, 21 July 1729 1.4 Mary Theresa Weld to her son, Edward Weld, 31 December 1751 1.5 Edward Weld Sr in Lulworth, Dorset, to his son, Edward Weld, 24 September 1757. 1.6 Edward Weld, Hart Street, Bloomsbury, London, to his son, John Weld, 27 January 1758 1.7 Edward Church, Liège, to Edward Weld Jr, Lulworth, Dorset, 8 April 1760 1.8 Richard Huddlestone, Sawston, Cambridgeshire, to his elder brother, Ferdinand Huddlestone, 2 July 1784.