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A New Letter by John Milton

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2020

J. Milton French
J. Milton French*
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Dartmouth College
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PMLA , Volume 49 , Issue 4 , December 1934 , pp. 1069 - 1070
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Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1934

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1 The letter is now owned by the Marquis of Bath.

2 The original: “domino Whitlockio ampliter scripsi, de illo quod inseri cupiebas, nimirum ut successoribus et posteris etiam domini comitis, caveretur, eadem formula quam et ipse suggerebas: addidi insuper quas et ipse attulisti rationes, quamobrem id nisi fieret, nihil agi videretur.” See Alfred Stern, Milton und seine Zeit, ii, iii, 295.

3 For the story of this transaction, see Masson iv, 351, 379, 417–418, 423–424, 480–481; Stern, ii, iii, appendix i; Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series, 1651–1652, passim; LTLS, Feb. 16, 1928, p. 112; Notes and Queries clix (1930), 208.

4 Though I have not been able to see the original letter personally, I am able to print it from the transcript kindly sent me by His Grace the Marquess of Bath. In the Third Report of the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts (1872), p. 192, it is said to be signed by Milton's own hand and sealed with Milton's seal, a double-headed eagle.