Letterbook of Sir George Manners
Letterbook of Sir George Manners.
An autograph letter signed by Sir George Manners, to Lady Mary Wroth, asking to read her manuscript of [Part two of] Urania, 31 May 1640.
Recorded in HMC, 12th Report, Appendix, Part IV, Rutland, Vol. I (1888), p. 520. Edited in Roberts, Poems, pp. 244-5.
A composite volume of state letters and papers.
Autograph letter signed by Constable, to the Earl of Rutland, 16 January 1583[/4].
Recorded in HMC, 12th Report, Part IV, Rutland I (1888), pp. 158-9.
Autograph letter signed by Constable, to his father, Sir Robert Constable, 12 September 1584.
Recorded in HMC, 12th Report, Part IV, Rutland I (1888), p. 168.
Autograph letter signed by Constable, to the Earl of Rutland, from Paris, 13 March 1585[/6].
Recorded in HMC, 12th Report, Part IV, Rutland I (1888), p. 173.
A composite volume of state letters and papers.
Copy.
Recorded in HMC 12th Report, Part IV, Rutland I (1888), pp. 370-3.
Autograph letter signed by Constable, to the Earl of Rutland, from Paris, 11 ?June 1603.
Recorded in HMC, 12th Report, Part IV, Rutland I (1888), p. 391.
A composite volume of state letters and papers.
Autograph letter signed by Taylor, to [the Countess of Rutland], from Annesley, 21 June 1658.
Edited in HMC, 12th Report, Appendix 5, Rutland II (1889), pp. 5-6.
A folio composite volume of verse MSS, in various hands.
c.1612-20.In collections of the Manners family, Dukes of Rutland.
Recorded (erroneously as Volume XXIV) in HMC, 12th Report, Appendix V, Rutland II (1889), pp. 316-31.
Copy, in the secretary hand of George Faulcon, receiver or secretary to Roger Manners (1576-1612), fifth Earl of Rutland, and to George Manners (1580-1641), seventh Earl of Rutland, headed Six holie Sisters
, here beginning Six holie sisters of the Purest sect
, with another epigram on a single quarto leaf.
First published (anonymously) in Rump: or An Exact Collection of the Choycest Poems and Songs (London, 1662), II, 158-9. McClure No. 356, p. 292. Kilroy, Book II, No. 94, p. 164.
Copy.
Osborn, No. XXVIII (pp. 196-9), with an English version (beginning Whosoever is contented
), on pp. 288-91.
Copy of the song.
California, XI, 69-70. Kinsley, I, 132-3. Hammond & Hopkins, I, 239-40.
Verse and prose extracts, including lines from poems No. 2, 4, 6, 14, 19 and 51, transcribed for writing practice by Lady Katherine Manners (1603?-49), who became wife of the first Duke of Buckingham, in a small booklet, the name William Ellis
inscribed (f. 45v).
This MS discussed in Josephine A. Roberts, Extracts from Arcadia in the Manuscript Notebook of Lady Katherine Manners, N&Q, 226 (1981), 35-6.
The unfinished revised version of Arcadia (the New Arcadia
) first published in London, 1590. Edited, as The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia (The New Arcadia), by Victor Skretkowicz (Oxford, 1987).
Copy, here beginning I.C.V.R. brave monser Car
.
First published in Love-Poems and Humourous Ones, ed. Frederick J. Furnivall, The Ballad Society (Hertford, 1874; reprinted in New York, 1977), p. 20. Listed but not printed in Latham, p. 174. Rudick, No. 48, p. 121 (as Sir Walter Raleigh to the Lord Carr).
Copy, headed The Debauch disabled
, on a single leaf.
First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp
, 1680). Vieth, pp. 116-17. Walker, pp. 97-9. Love, pp. 44-5.
A composite volume of state letters and papers.
Autograph letter signed by Constable, to [? the Earl of Rutland], 1608?.
Recorded in HMC, Rutland IV (1905), p. 211.
A fragment of Henslowe's Diary
, containing Dekker's autograph receipt for 18 January 1599/1600.
Formerly among the manuscripts of the Egerton-Warburton family. Sotheby's, 16 March 1937, lot 484, to J. K. Fletcher. Currently untraced.
Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 291. Facsimiles in W. W. Greg, A Fragment from Henslowe's Diary, The Library, 4th Ser. 19 (1938-9), 180-4, and in Sotheby's sale catalogue.
