The book tells the fascinating story of a bundle of letters that were seized when a Dublin-registered ship was stopped by a British privateer in the Bay of Biscay in 1757. The letters and other related items formed part of a court case and were held in the British National Archives until they were rediscovered by accident by an American researcher in 2011.
Photograph of front cover of The Bordeaux-Dublin Letters, 1757.
It really was like finding a time capsule, a time capsule that transported the reader back 250 years witnessing how friendships, private relationships, as well as societies, operated. This was such an amazing find and reminds us of the fascinating discoveries still to be made in archives and libraries around the world.
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