C. Cottrell-Dormer, Rousham

Autograph letter signed by Philips (Orinda), to Sir Charles Cottrell, 26 October [1663].

1663.

Edited from this letter in Thomas, II, 110-15 (Letter XXXIXa). Edited earlier in Letters from Orinda to Poliarchus (London, 1729), Letter XXXIX, and, quoted from the manuscript, in Elijah Fenton's edition of The Works of Edmund Waller (London, 1729), pp. lxxxviii-lxxxix.

Copy, apparently in the hand of Sir Clement Cottrell (1686-1758), superscribed M^rs Philips call'd Orinda wrote this, on a small folio leaf tipped-in a printed exemplum of Katherine Philips, Poems (London, 1676).

Early-mid-18th century.

This MS recorded in Thomas, II, 163.

Three indentures and one recovery roll, concerning the settlement of Waller's daughter, Anna Marah (b.1634), on marrying William Dormer, all signed by Waller, 10 October 1653.

1653.