Autograph letter signed from John Donne, Fleet Prison, to Sir George More [manuscript], 1601/1602 February 11.

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Autograph letter signed from John Donne, Fleet Prison, to Sir George More [manuscript], 1601/1602 February 11.

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Donne writes from prison and asks forgiveness for his secret marriage to More's daughter Anne. Donne insists that "all my Endevors, and the whole course of my lyfe shalbe bent, to make my selfe worthy of your favor, and her love, whose peace of Conscience, and quiett, I know must be much wounded and violencd, if your displeasure sever us."

2 leaves ; 30 x 21 cm.

Folger Shakespeare Library

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Donne, Anne More, -1617

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More, George, Sir, 1553?-1632

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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, ...