BIB_ID
379671
Accession number
MA 3342.1
Creator
Chalkhill, John, approximately 1595-1642.
Display Date
[1630-1639?].
Credit line
Gift of The Fellows Fund, 1979.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 30.8 cm
Notes
Address panel to "Mr. Josias Clarke / at Mr. John Brownes / house at Twicknam / delyuer these."
Chalkhill included a sonnet with this letter, also signed Penelope Trulove, which is cataloged and housed separately as MA 3342.8.
Signed as "Youres Penelope Trulove."
The letter is undated, however, in the Ryskamp book on Chalkhill, he refers to the style of handwriting for this ruse one "that a reader in the 1630s would associate with someone of rather advanced years."
Chalkhill included a sonnet with this letter, also signed Penelope Trulove, which is cataloged and housed separately as MA 3342.8.
Signed as "Youres Penelope Trulove."
The letter is undated, however, in the Ryskamp book on Chalkhill, he refers to the style of handwriting for this ruse one "that a reader in the 1630s would associate with someone of rather advanced years."
Provenance
From the Houghton Collection.
Summary
Writing to Josias Clarke in the guise of Penelope Trulove, "a poore handmayd", who expresses her secret passion for him.
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