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Search - Original Letters Of Eminent Literary Men - Of The Sixteenth, Seventeenth, And Eighteenth Centuries

Original Letters Of Eminent Literary Men - Of The Sixteenth Seventeenth And Eighteenth Centuries
Author: Henry Ellis

Preface. His first intention was to have printed a Collection of Letters, chiefly of the time of Elizabeth and James the First, confined to Camden and his more learned friends but he found that the interest likely to be awakened by such a Collection would have been more limited than the period embraced by the letters. He therefore enlarged his p... more »lan and took his stand in point of time from this side of the Reformation to the close of the eighteenth Century selecting from Correspondence which he believed to be hitherto unpublished, such Letters of eminent Men as it seemed useful to preserve. Many will be found in the present Collection which throw light upon the history of knowledge a few express the disappointments, and some exhibit the infirmities of authors. The Letters of Camden, besides adding two or three facts to his biography, have afforcied the Editor an opportunity of rectifying the bibliographical history of his great work the Britannia, and also of exhibiting the deference with which he was justly regarded by his learned contemporaries. The numerous Letters addressed to Sir Robert Cotton give some interesting particulars in reference to the formation of that wonderful Collection of Manuscripts which ultimately became the nucleus of the National Library, and is still perhaps its most valuable portion. They also shew how liberally the scholars of that clay were permitted to use Sir Robert Cottons Collection. The Letters to Wheloc give an interesting history of the foundation of the Arabic Professorship and Anglo-Saxon Lecture at Cambridge. Those of Sir Symonds DEwes, besides information that is strictly literary, furnish important public intelligence in reference to the Proceedings in Parliament in December 1640. The College Letters of Strype contain some curious details of University life in the reign of Charles the Second, as well as of the early life of that assiduous Collector. But in biographical and personal interest those of Ray cannot easily be surpassed. His last Letter, in which he bade farewell to Dr. Sloane, is a melancholy but invaluable memorial of one who will ever occupy a high station amongst the most eminent men of our Country, both as a naturalist and a Inan of learning ant1 piety. In selecting this Collection of Letters the Editor given a preference to such as having relation to matters of interest, are also recommended by the names of the writers...

ISBN-13: 9781408637609
ISBN-10: 140863760X
Publication Date: 1/31/2008
Pages: 472
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