Autograph Letters 1585-1617
A folio composite volume of original letters and documents.
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*HrJ 396 No. 169Autograph
Autograph letter signed, to Lady Arbella Stuart, 19 November [probably 1607].
Craig, pp. 52-3, with a facsimile.
Sir John Harington, Letter(s) -
BmF 3.5 f. 190r-v.
Copy, untitled, on both sides of a single folio leaf, apparently enclosed originally with a letter by Sir Charles Cavendish to the Countess of Shrewsbury, from Welbeck, Nottinghamshire, 17 April 1614 (on f. 189:
...but mak som notes that may lye by yow and at your pleasure yow may pervse them...
). 1614.Edited from this MS in Edmund Lodge, Illustrations of British History, Biography, and Manners, 3 vols (London, 1791), III, 394-6.
First published, as An Elegie by F. B., in Certain Elegies, Done by Sundrie Excellent Wits (London, 1618). Dyce XI, 505-7.
Francis Beaumont, Ad Comitissam Rutlandiae ('Madam, so may my verses pleasing be')