05/01/2022

Quotation from James Raven

I would not be surprised if I have posted this before but I cannot see where, if I have. On page 152 of a book called Publishing Business in Eighteenth-century England (Boydell Press, UK) James Raven writes

Of many examples, the Baptist minister and prolific hymn-writer, Benjamin Beddome (1717-95), used his co-religionist and Little Britain bookseller, Aaron Ward (d.1747) as receiver of all his correspondence during his visit to London in 1740 (and probably on other occasions). Ward sent some of the letters on to Beddome's London lodgings but, like Pepys and many others before him, Beddome visited Ward and the printing houses of Little Britain as a way of meeting people and learning of the latest news and publications. From Ward, Beddome collected his latest correspondence, leaving notes of reply and letters to others implicated in the latest news.

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