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Revision as of 14:40, December 31, 2011

19th March 1662/63, Letter from Samuel Butler to Sir GO, London


BL, Add. MS. XX,XXX, ff. 26-27

Editorial history

18/12/11, CSG: Page created



Abstract & context


The author Samuel Butler was part of the Oxenden and Dallison social circle which frequented gray's Inn and Gray's Inn walks.[1]



Suggested links


See 30th March 1663, Letter from Richard Oxinden to Sir GO, London



To do


(1) Transcribe this letter



Transcription


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BL, Add. MS. XX,XXX, ff. 26-27

Your worthy kinsman my hon:d ffreind Collonell Oxinden[2] hath engaged me to give you this trouble, for his intending to present you w:th a trifle of mine, a book lately printed here…..

Yo: humble & ffaithfull Serv:t Sam:ll Butler

London March ye 19:th 1662



Notes

  1. This is the footnote text
  2. Richard Oxinden, Sir George Oxenden's cousin. Richard Oxinden wrote two weeks later to his cousin to tell him that Elizabeth Dallison was sending him a copy of Butler's Hudibras. See 30th March 1663, Letter from Richard Oxinden to Sir GO, London