Letters
Members of the Wernerian Society were entitled to use the abbreviation M.W.S. after their name. "Corresponding members", based outside of Edinburgh, used the designation C.M.W.S.
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“And graven with diamonds in letters plain
There is written her fair neck round about:
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And wild for to hold though I seem tame.””
—Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503?–1542)
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