Autograph letter signed : to Katherine Packer, 1638 Mar.

Record ID: 
379679
Accession number: 
MA 3342.2
Author: 
Chalkhill, John, approximately 1595-1642.
Credit: 
Gift of The Fellows Fund, 1979.
Description: 
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 31.2 cm
Notes: 

The letter signed as "John Chalkhill or S'r Hobson."
Address panel with fragments of a seal "To his louinge and / kinde Coussen M'ris / Katherine Packerre / at Mr. John Packers / house neere the Deanes / yard in Westminster / these be / d[elivere]d.

Summary: 

Being a letter and a poem to cheer up the younger sister of the wife of his first-cousin who was ill.

Provenance: 
From the Houghton Collection.