BIB_ID
131417
Accession number
MA 1581.177
Creator
Secker, Thomas, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1693-1768.
Display Date
London, England, 1767 January 6.
Credit line
Purchased from Benjamin Ifor Evans, 1954.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 22.4 x 18.5 cm
Notes
This letter is from a large collection of letters written to Sir George Howland Beaumont (1753-1827) and Lady Margaret Willes Beaumont (1758-1829) of Coleorton Hall and to other members of the Beaumont family. See collection-level record for more information (MA 1581.1-297).
This letter was formerly identified as MA 1581 (Secker) 1.
Docketed.
Secker simply addresses this letter to Mr. Jones. In a printed excerpt from the letter, in a publication by Katherine Bracht published in 2007, a note to the excerpt suggests this letter may have been written to Rev. William Jones (1726-1800).
Catherine Talbot was the daughter of the Rev. Edward Talbot (1693-1820). Miss Talbot and her mother lived with Thomas Secker and his wife from their marriage in 1725 until Secker's death in 1768. Miss Talbot was an author and served as Secker's almoner during the time she lived with him.
This letter was formerly identified as MA 1581 (Secker) 1.
Docketed.
Secker simply addresses this letter to Mr. Jones. In a printed excerpt from the letter, in a publication by Katherine Bracht published in 2007, a note to the excerpt suggests this letter may have been written to Rev. William Jones (1726-1800).
Catherine Talbot was the daughter of the Rev. Edward Talbot (1693-1820). Miss Talbot and her mother lived with Thomas Secker and his wife from their marriage in 1725 until Secker's death in 1768. Miss Talbot was an author and served as Secker's almoner during the time she lived with him.
Provenance
Purchased as a gift of the Fellows from Benjamin Ifor Evans, 1954.
Summary
Commenting at length on a letter Jones write to Miss Talbot; discussing theological issues and the necessity of separating philosophical from religious beliefs; saying "I do not see, what speculations can be built on the Doctrine of a vacuum to hurt the Doctrine of the Trinity : or that there is any Connexion between Newtonianism & Arianism. It is very unhappy that Newton chanced to be an Arian : for that hath tempted many Admirers of his Mathematicks & Physicks to be so likewise. But he did not learn his System of Christianity from his System of Philosophy : nor was he the same great man in the Interpretation of Scripture as of Nature."
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