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Recent scholarship has subjected eighteenth‐century masculine identities to complex and contested analyses, but paid relatively little attention to friendship. The correspondence between Charles Jenkinson and John Robinson, hitherto a resource for high political narrative, is here examined to trace and analyse the development of lifelong sympathy and affection between two diligent, conventionally...