Letters Of Sir Walter Ralegh
Distributed for University of Exeter Press
“The University of Exeter Press has done the proud Devon man proud. The book is well printed and generously illustrated. Students will be grateful for plates of holograph letters which illustrate the varying forms of Ralegh's hand, and include an example of a sketch of a scaffold or gallows that he use to emphasize the message 'hast post hast! hast for life'.” –TLS, October 22 1999
“ . . . this substantial volume brings together all that is known of his correspondence, uncollected since 1868 and much expanded and refined. Students of history and literature will grasp at this book as it throws a beam across the glorious, if storm - tossed, life of one of the more attractive (perhaps the most attractive) personality of a late Tudor and early Jacobean statesman, poet and adventurer. . . Joyce Youings has done a fine job. She has given us the essentials of Agnes Latham's long labours and added her own academic and editing skills to make the volume one of the finest editions to English Renaissance scholarship we are likely to see in this last year of the millennium.” –South West Soundings, October 1999
List of Plates
List of Abbreviations
Foreword by Emeritus Professor David Quinn, FBA
Preface
Introduction
The Collection
Previous Publication of the Letters
A Brief Biography: Sir Walter Ralegh 1554-1618
The Recipients of the Letters
The Subject Matter of the Letters
Ireland and Virginia
Ships, Privateering and the Sea Wars
The Queen and the Court
Patronage
The Sherborne Estate
The Westcountryman
Guiana
The Man behind the Pen
The Writing of the Letters
Spelling and Style
Ralegh's Clerks and Carriers
Editorial Conventions
Acknowledgements
The Letters
Appendices
1. Letter 31a. To Master [James] Gold from the Court, 10 October [1589]
2. Sir Walter Ralegh's Will, 8-10 July 1597
3. Agnes M. C. Latham: Bibliography
Index
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