Supplication for a place as canon of Christchurch, Oxford [manuscript], 1648.

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Supplication for a place as canon of Christchurch, Oxford [manuscript], 1648.

Autobiographical fragment, mentioning John Donne's famous father Dr. Donne, and his sermons. Donne the younger had twice failed to get a Christchurch canonry, and now points to the vacancy caused by the death of Dr. Morris. Also includes modern transcript, and engravings of Oxford.

2 p.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7884277

Folger Shakespeare Library

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Donne, John, 1572-1631

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Proposed for publication as part of the Percy Society series. From the description of The Songs and sonnets of Dr. John Donne : with critical notes by the late Samuel Taylor Coleridge / edited by Barron Field, Esq. : manuscript, [ca. 1840] (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612868820 Herbert Grierson attached great importance to the manuscript and presumed the writer to be an acquaintance of Donne. From the description of Poems and paradoxes : manuscript, ...

Morris, John, 1594?-1648

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Donne, John, 1604-1662

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