Record ID:
379671
Accession number:
MA 3342.1
Credit:
Gift of The Fellows Fund, 1979.
Description:
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 30.8 cm
Notes:
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."
Signed as "Youres Penelope Trulove."
Chalkhill included a sonnet with this letter, also signed Penelope Trulove, which is cataloged and housed separately as MA 3342.8.
Address panel to "Mr. Josias Clarke / at Mr. John Brownes / house at Twicknam / delyuer these."
Summary:
Writing to Josias Clarke in the guise of Penelope Trulove, "a poore handmayd", who expresses her secret passion for him.
Provenance:
From the Houghton Collection.
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