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Secular
Seneca has several famous letters on friendship as does Cicero.
Notable is Aelred of Rievaulx – On Spiritual Friendship, transl. by Mary Eugenia Laker;
Medieval
Thomas Aquinas on Friendship;
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1500’s
Erasmus, Treatise on Friendship;
Lambert Daneau, True and Christian Friendship, with all the Branches, Members, Parts and Circumstances Thereof… (1586)
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1600’s
Jeremy Taylor “A Discourse of the Nature, Offices, and Measures of Friendship, with Rules of Conducting It” (1657/176pp).
Samuel Masters on Prov. 17:17 (1685);
George Wither (1653), a black letter volume entitled, “The Triall of true Friendship (1596) by a M.B.;
“A Discourse of Friendship” by “E.G. Gent., (1676/172pp.);
Robert Cushman of New England on 1 Cor. 10:24 (1622/19pp.)
Baxter – A Christian Directory
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1800’s
Trumball, H. Clay – Friendship: the Master Passion: the Nature and History of Friendship, and its Place as a Force in the World with an Introduction by Maurice Roberts
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