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Thomas Birch (1705-66), Secretary of the Royal Society from 1752 to 1765, and
Philip Yorke, second Earl of Hardwicke (1720-90), wrote a 'Weekly Letter' from
1741 to 1766, an unpublished correspondence of 680 letters now housed in the
British Library (Additional Mss 35396-400). The article examines the dimensions
and purposes of this correspondence, an important conduit of information for the
influential coterie of the 'Hardwicke circle' gathered around Yorke in the Royal
Society. It explores the writers' self-conception of the correspondence, which
was expressed in deliberately archaic categories of seventeenth-century news
exchange, such as the newsletter, aviso and a-la-main. It shows how the letter
writers negotiated their difference in status through the discourse of
friendship, and concludes that the 'Weekly Letter' constituted for the
correspondents a form of private knowledge, restricted in circulation to their
discrete group, and as such unlike the open and networked model of Enlightenment
science.