Cadell Mortimer Posted December 22, 2022 Share Posted December 22, 2022 (edited) SUPER VISION BOARD OF FUTURE PLANS (hard mode) -Needs contacts. Take every opportunity to meet connected individuals, especially peers. -Has always wanted a position in York's household. Possible if unofficial. Once told John Ashburnham of this desire. -Fascinated by diplomacy. Diplomats can work in unofficial capacities, surely? -Presently working on becoming a salonier. Wants Portsmouth to host. The idea here is to cultivate a circle of learned contacts, build connections from there, get attention, impress upon others France's advanced culture of learning. -Likely a pipe dream, but envisions a Royal Society but for the humanities - moral philosophy, art, history - similar to the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres. -Could be fun to care about his estate in Ireland FAMILY -Should revive this angle. His sisters are married off to rather obscure gentry in Wales, arrangements made before his brother's death and his inheritance. RELIGION -Fake conversion, resounding NO. For now... Edited December 22, 2022 by Cadell Mortimer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cadell Mortimer Posted January 11, 2023 Author Share Posted January 11, 2023 (edited) "In the early years of the 17th century, many famous collegiate and town libraries were founded in England. Norwich City library was established in 1608[9] (six years after Thomas Bodley founded the Bodleian Library, which was open to the "whole republic of the learned") and Chetham's Library in Manchester, which claims to be the oldest public library in the English-speaking world, opened in 1653.[10] Biblioteca Palafoxiana in Puebla City, Mexico, is recognized by UNESCO for being the first public library in the Americas. It was founded in 1646 by Juan de Palafox y Mendoza.[11][12][13] In his seminal work Advis pour dresser une bibliothèque (1644) the French scholar and librarian Gabriel Naudé asserted that only three libraries in all Europe granted in his times regular access to every scholar, namely the Biblioteca Ambrosiana in Milan, the Biblioteca Angelica in Rome, and the Bodleian Library in Oxford.[14]" Edited January 11, 2023 by Cadell Mortimer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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