Autograph letter signed from John Donne to Sir George More [manuscript], 1614 December 3.

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Autograph letter signed from John Donne to Sir George More [manuscript], 1614 December 3.

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Letter contains some curious passages on patronage. Donne contemplates his "purpose" of entering the ministry of the Church of England rather than continuing to seek secular preferment at Court, and he refers to the Lord chamberlain (Robert Carr, Earl of Somerset).

1 leaf ; 31 x 21 cm.

Folger Shakespeare Library

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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, ...

More, George, Sir, 1553?-1632

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