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Letters addressed to Matthew Prior, chiefly on non-official matters and many relating...

Catalogue reference: PR/VOL. VII

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PR/VOL. VII
Date
1701-1721
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Letters addressed to Matthew Prior, chiefly on non-official matters and many relating to his poems; 26 Mar., 1701-27 July, 1721.

Among the writers are:- Hyacinthe Rigaud, painter to Louis XIV; Duke of Marlborough; Adam Cardonnel, Marlborough's secretary; Sir Thomas Hanmer; Dr Humphrey Gower; Henry St. John, Sec. of State; Sir Jonathan Trelawny, Bishop of Winchester; John Montagu, Duke of Montagu; Henry Grey, Duke of Kent; Lionel Sackville, Earl of Dorset; Hugh Cholmondeley, Earl of Cholmondeley; Thomas Thynne, Viscount Weymouth; Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford; Charles Montagu, Earl of Halifax; James Stanhope, Sec. of State; Philip Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield; Francis Atterbury, Bishop of Rochester; Duke of Shrewsbury; Allen Bathurst, Lord Bathurst; John Sheffield, Duke of Buckingham; Dr. Jonathan Swift; and Alexander Pope.

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English
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Letters addressed to Matthew Prior, chiefly on non-official matters and many relating...