MRP: Letter from Henry Oxinden (of Barham) to Elizabeth Dallison (his cousin)

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Letter from Henry Oxinden (of Barham) to Elizabeth Dallison (his cousin)

(MS. 28,000, f. 360v.)
Printed as Letter CXCVI in D.K. Gardiner (1933:226)
Undated, but grouped by D.K. Gardiner with other 1641 letters

(DRAFT)

DEARE COZIN,

I am not a little melancholie for want of your companie, wishing I could bee so happie as to enioy. I desire that I might have your picture by mee, that I might take pleasure in beholding it: surely the substance of that body is deare to him that will rightly value the shadow thereof, as will doe

Your affectionate friend and servant
H. OXINDEN

I am most extremely vexed at the Lady Baker, in so much as you cannot doe mee a greater favor than out of relation to mee to perswade her to bee with you a fourthnight, as I am confident you may, and this I will estimate as a great (unfinished)


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