One of the best examples of a transatlantic Republic of Letters began about 1690, when John Dunton launched a series of journalistic ventures, nearly all of them under the aegis of a forward-looking "club" called the Athenian Society, an English predecessor of Harvard's Telltale Club, Franklin's Junto, and other such associations dedicated to mental and moral improvement. The Athenian society took it as one of their particular goals to spread learning in the vernacular. One of the plans of this group in 1691 was the publication of translations from the "Acta Eruditorum", the "Journal des Sçavans", the "Bibliothèque Universelle", and the "Giornale de Letterati". The outcome was the formation of "The Young Students Library, containing Extracts and Abridgements of the Most Valuable Books Printed in England and in the Foreign Journals from the year Sixty-Five to the Present Time". The "Young Students Library", like the "Universal Historical Bibliothèque" of 1687, was made up almost entirely of translated pieces, in this case mostly from the "Journal des Sçavans", Bayle's "Nouvelles de la République des Lettres, and Le Clerc's and La Crose's "Bibliothèque Universelle et Historique".