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
      No description or publication history available.

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

      Sir Henry Wotton, A Parallel between Robert Earl of Essex and George Duke of Buckingham
  • 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
      No description or publication history available.

      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.

      John Donne, The Bracelet ('Not that in colour it was like thy haire')