Duke of Westminster, Eaton Estate Office

Personal Papers 2/29

Copy, in a professional hand, on 30 small quarto pages, in vellum gilt. c.1634-41.

Among the papers of Sir Richard Grosvenor, first Baronet (1585-1645).

Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 215.

WoH 295: Sir Henry Wotton, A Parallel between Robert Earl of Essex and George Duke of Buckingham

Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 215.

First published in London, 1641. Edited by Sir Robert Egerton Brydges (Lee Priory Press, Ickham, 1814).

Personal Papers 2/54

Copy, headed Mr Donne his Elegy vpon his Mistress Chayne, on the first three pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, endorsed in another hand on the fourth page Dr Don his Elegie upon his Mrs Chayne, imperfect, lacking most of lines 103-13. Early 17th century.

Among the papers of Sir Richard Grosvenor (1585-1645)

This MS discussed, with a complete facsimile, in Dennis Flynn, Donne Manuscripts in Cheshire, EMS, 8: Seventeenth-Century Poetry, Music and Drama (2000), 280-92 (pp. 286-91).

DnJ 406.5: John Donne, The Bracelet

This MS discussed, with a complete facsimile, in Dennis Flynn, Donne Manuscripts in Cheshire, EMS, 8: Seventeenth-Century Poetry, Music and Drama (2000), 280-92 (pp. 286-91).

First published, as Eleg. XII. The Bracelet, in Poems (1635). Grierson, I, 96-100 (as Elegie XI). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 1-4. Shawcross, No. 8. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 5-7.