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Title
Letter From Richard Fanshawe to Sir
Description
Concerning Fanshawe's details of his recent voyage after three years, his safe arrival in Madrid, his voyage with his captain, and the sending of a packet.
Date Created
1650-04-17
Contributors
- Fanshawe, Richard, 1608-1666 (Author)
- Connelly, Mollie (Transcriber)
Topical Subject
Extent
1 leaf, writing on recto and verso.
1 type written leaf, type on recto.
1 type written leaf, type on recto and verso.
2 negatives.
Language
eng
Copyright Statement
No Known Copyright
Primary Member of
Identifier
Identifier Type
Locally defined identifier
Identifier Value
MSS_363_FAR_1650_1_1
Identifier Type
Locally defined identifier
Identifier Value
MSS_363_FAR_1650_1_2
Identifier Type
Locally defined identifier
Identifier Value
MSS_363_FAR_1650_1_3
Identifier Type
Locally defined identifier
Identifier Value
MSS_363_FAR_1650_1_4
Identifier Type
Locally defined identifier
Identifier Value
MSS_363_FAR_1650_1_5
Peer-reviewed
No
Open Access
No
Series
17th Century Manuscripts||British Correspondence
Handle
https://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.26039
Note
Curator's Note: Handwritten notes on letter read: "(3987) gep" on recto and "Mr Fanshaw of the 27th of Aprill [Recey] May 26. 1650" with some more illegible handwriting on verso. The first note on the verso assumedly written by the recipient of the letter.
Seller's Description: Typed Seller's description card entitled "With a Holograph Letter from the Translator" and signed "Harold e. Graves" gives information about the letter. He links it to the letter written my John Mennes in this collection Local Call #: MSS_363_MEJ_1663_1.
Seller's Description: A second seller's description from a page town out of a book lists this letter as "A Fine Literary Letter" and guesses at the details surrounding the recipient of the letter.
Paper Details: Originally folded. In odd colored ink.
Transcription Details: In difficult handwriting.
Creation Date Details: Letter includes both Old Style and New Style dates: "Aprill 17/27 1650."
Provenance: According to Seller's description, this letter was tipped into "The Lusiad, or, Portugals historicall poem: written in the Portingall language by Lvis de Camoens; and now newly put into English by Richard Fanshaw esq." Publisher London, Printed for Humphrey Moseley, at the Prince's-arms in St. Pauls church-yard, 1655. Local Call #: SPEC- C-576.
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- 2014-10-10 04:00:12
System Modified
- 2021-05-28 03:39:44
- 3 years 7 months ago
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