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“I find I can always give utterance to my own thoughts and feelings with more readiness, ease, and fluency, on paper than orally.”

Reflecting on the comparative ease of written over spoken expression · Letter

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Bernard Barton

31 January 1784–19 February 1849

In the quiet market town of Woodbridge, Suffolk, where the River Deben winds its way toward the North Sea, lived one of the 19th century's most prolific yet paradoxical literary figures. Bernard Barton (1784-1849) occupied a unique position in English literature—a devout Quaker who found himself torn between the…

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