Letter to Sir Edwin Sandys [manuscript], 1617 June 8,

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Letter to Sir Edwin Sandys [manuscript], 1617 June 8,

Rolfe, James Towne, describes his journey back to Virginia, the good state of the colony, though a lack of clothing, the Indians, his sorrow over the death of Pocohontas, and the comfort of his infant son whom he has left behind. He requests that the stipend to his wife be continued to his son. In a postscript he asks for a command and an estate for himself and the child.

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Rolfe, John, 1585-1622

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Sandys, Edwin, Sir, 1561-1629

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Rolfe, Thomas, b. 1615.

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