Record ID:
80008
Accession number:
MA 9811
Credit:
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1906.
Description:
1 item (2 pages, with address) ; 20.6 x 14.6 cm
Notes:
Docketed. Year of writing taken from the docket.
Address panel: "For the Right Hon:ble / Sir Robert Southwell."
From a bound collection of documents and letters titled Autographs of the Bishops of London. Previously accessioned as MA 549.
Summary:
Recommending Peter Drelincourt, who wishes to exchange his preferment for something near Dublin; describing him as "sometimes Tutour to the Duke of Ormond [...] an honest man & a good Scholar;" adding that he has the support of the king and queen: "The Queen has an esteem for him, particularly upon his brothers [Charles Drelincourt] account, who is Physick Professor at Leyden, & much in ye Kings interest."
Provenance:
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer Pearson in June 1906.
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