Autograph letter from Samuel Weller Singer (?) to an unidentified recipient [manuscript], 18th or 19th century.

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Autograph letter from Samuel Weller Singer (?) to an unidentified recipient [manuscript], 18th or 19th century.

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Thanks the recipient for allowing Singer to print his inquiry concerning the author of the Life of Wolsey in the Appendix to an Edition which he has been preparing for publication, and which is now very near completion. Discusses a manuscript copy of the Life of Wolsey that is apparently in the author's own autograph and also contains a series of metrical visions.

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Folger Shakespeare Library

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Cavendish, George, 1500-1561?

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