Henry More
Verse
First published in
See
First published in More's
Copy, headed
Copy, by Elizabeth Rowe, headed
A tipped-in letter by Thomas Stevenson, Cambridge bookseller, to J.A. Wickham, 2 August 1841, says this volume came to him with other books from the Rev. J.W. Berry, vicar of Foxton. A note inside the front cover by one M. J.
also records his purchase of this Valuable book
from Mr Kerslake
.
Sotheby's, 21-22 July 1980, lot 552, with a facsimile of p. 82 in the sale catalogue.
Prose
Unfinished and unpublished treatise, beginning That short but weighty Prophecy of the Prophet Malachi, ch.4. v.2
But unto you that fear my name...
Copy on 29 pages, rectos only, with a preliminary two pages of The Contents of the ensuing Discourse. Chap 1st-3d
by C. B.
; headed N.B. The foregoing Treatise is Part of what Dr. More intended to have intitul'ed, The sure Guide wherefore I can't but heartily Lament the unspeakable Loss which the world has sustain'd, by our Author's being prevented by Death from the farther Prosecution of this his great and charitable Designe C. B.
Entitled
Dobell's sale catalogue Autograph Letters and Manuscripts
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Letters
Edited, with related Conway letters from other sources, in Nicolson, with a facsimile of More's letter of 18 April [1653] after p. 80. Three of More's letters to Lady Anne, on ff. 302r-7v, which were omitted from Nicolson are edited and discussed in Alan Gabbey,
Recorded in HMC, 55, Various Collections, VII (1914), p. 428.
Edited in Richard Baxter,
Extracts from three letters by More, to Dr John Worthington, dated respectively 24 January and 7 February 1664/5 and 10 May 1665.
Extracts from three letters by More, to Dr John Worthington, dated respectively 24 January and 7 February 1664/5 and 10 May 1665.
Volume III (M-S) of Birch's biographical collections.
c.1730-66.Autograph letter signed by More, to Dr John Pell, from Christ's College, Cambridge, 23 May 1665.
Pell Papers (1st series), Volume II.
Edited in
Recorded in HMC, 78, Hastings II (1930), p. 379. Facsimile in
Autograph letter signed by More, to Dr Simon Patrick, from Christ's College, Cambridge, 5 October 1673.
Recorded in HMC, 78, Hastings II (1930), p. 385.
Autograph letter signed by More, to William Sancroft, Archbishop of Canterbury, from Christ's College, Cambridge, 2 January 1679/80.
Autograph letter signed by More, to Dr John Sharp, from Christ's College, Cambridge, 16 August 1680.
Volume III (M-S) of the Thoresby Papers.
Acquired by Thomas Birch in 1764.
Facsimile in
Edited in HMC, 71, Finch II (1922), pp. 179-181.
Documents
Autograph supplicats signed by More, 1 April 1636, and again in 1637 and 1638.
An autograph signature of Henry More, cut from a document dated 1673.
Edited in Nicolson, pp. 481-3.
Miscellaneous Extracts from Works by More
Some Annotationes in Casp: Bartholimi Metaphysicam majorem
entered as Tutoris Mori Camb.
Extracts from Dr Henry More's Philosophical Collections
.
Extracts, headed
Inscribed (p. [41 rev.]) J. Tyrell
and compiled at least in part by James Tyrrell (1642-1718), historical writer and friend of the philosopher John Locke (1632-1704), a poem by whom (ff. [16v-17r]) he dockets as By my dear Friend Mr J. Lock
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Later in the library of Richard Monckton Milnes (1809-85), first Baron Houghton, author and politician, and his son Robert Offley Ashburton Milnes, afterwards Crewe-Milnes (1858-1945), first Marquess of Crewe, politician.
Extracts, headed
Inscribed, evidently by the compiler, Henry Harpur An: Do: 1674
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