Abstract
As travel became fashionable during the eighteenth century, the Grand Tour formed a part of the training of well-educated Englishmen; and Continentals, particularly the French, returned the visits. However, comparatively few Spaniards made the journey to England. Wars, religious differences, and Spain's cultural isolation effectively separated the two countries in the first half of the century. Eventually, news of the great English philosophical, scientific, political, and economic achievements filtered into Spain through the intermediary of France. After 1750 this secondhand information was supplemented by impressions and travel accounts of a small number of Spanish visitors to England.1 Most Spaniards traveled to learn. They studied medicine, science, crafts, industrial processes (where possible), the theater, and daily life and customs, hoping to discover successful English methods to apply to the improvement of their own country. Only a handful of Spanish voyagers left written records of their English journeys. Of scant literary interest are: Joaquin Manuel Fos's (Instruccidn metddica sobre los mueres (1790),2 which concerned silk manufacture, and Manuel de Angulo's Viajes de estudios por Inglaterra durante 1788-1795,3 which dealt with commercial
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