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Copies, in the hand of Daniel Skinner, of John Milton's Latin Letters of State.
Catalogue reference: SP 9/194
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This record is about the Copies, in the hand of Daniel Skinner, of John Milton's Latin Letters of State. dating from [1649 Aug. 10-1659 May 15] in the series State Paper Office: Williamson Collection, Pamphlets, Miscellaneous. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- SP 9/194
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1649 Aug. 10-1659 May 15]
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Description (What the record is about)
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Copies, in the hand of Daniel Skinner, of John Milton's Latin Letters of State.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Sewn together, without a cover. 114 pp. Skinner, a friend of Milton, had applied to Williamson (as Secretary of State) in 1676 for permission to publish the letters written by Milton as Secretary for the Latin Tongue under the Commonwealth, as well as the De Doctrina Christiana, both of which had been entrusted to him for publication by Milton himself. Williamson refused to allow publication of such politically subversive items, and managed to confiscate both the treatise and Skinner's copies of the letters, which he secreted in the State Paper Office. The letters were surreptitiously printed from a transcript in 1676, but the treatise lay forgotten in the State Paper Office until 1823, when its rediscovery by Robert Lemon caused a literary storm. More information on the Skinner affair may be found in J Milton French, '"That Late Villain Milton"', in Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, vol lv, no 1, 1940, pp 102-115. A copy of this article is in the Public Record Office Library.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- Open Document, Open Description
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SP 9
State Paper Office: Williamson Collection, Pamphlets, Miscellaneous
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Copies, in the hand of Daniel Skinner, of John Milton's Latin Letters of State.
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