Autograph letter signed from John Donne, Fleet Prison, to Sir Thomas Egerton [manuscript], 1601/1602 February 12.

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Autograph letter signed from John Donne, Fleet Prison, to Sir Thomas Egerton [manuscript], 1601/1602 February 12.

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Imprisoned following his secret marriage to Anne More, Donne refers to God joining in his punishment "with increasing my sicknes," and he begs Egerton to "lessen that Correction, which your just wisdome hath destind for me."

2 leaves ; 30 x 21 cm.

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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, ...

Donne, Anne More, -1617

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Egerton, Thomas, Sir, 1540?-1617

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Thomas Egerton, 1st Baron of Ellesmere, Lord Chancellor in 1603-1617. From the description of Some Noates and observations upon the Statute of Magna Carta Chap: 29 and other Statutes, 1615/1616. (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). WorldCat record id: 122499737 ...