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6 Grange Park, Ealing.—Jane Anger has no connection with Nashe’s Anatomy of Absurdity.

(With an envelope.)

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6 Grange Park | Ealing. W.
19 Oct 1907.

Dear Mr McKerrow

I am at length able to give a definite reply to your query about “Jane Anger”. The tract consists of twelve leaves & is in prose—but it ends with “A soveraign Salue, to ease the late surfeiting Louer”, which is in verse. There is however nothing in it to lead one to suppose that it has reference to Nashe’s “Anatomy of Absurdity” or to any other work. It appears to be merely a casual contribution to the literature of a popular topic of the day

Always yours truly
R. E. Graves

[Direction on envelope:] R. B. McKerrow Esq | 30 Manchester Street | Manchester Square | W.

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The envelope, which was postmarked at Ealing, W., at 5.15 p.m. on 19 October 1907, has been marked in pencil ‘Work’ and, in another place, ‘Re Jane Anger’.

6 Grange Park, Ealing.—Will consult the (unique) copy of Jane Anger at Britwell to see whether it has any connection with Nashe.

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6 Grange Park | Ealing. W.
3 Sept 1907.

Dear Mr McKerrow

“Jane Anger” is at Britwell, but I do not remember that it has any connection with Nashe. However I shall be there some time this month & I will then look at it & report further to you.

Always yours truly
R. E. Graves

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{1} The unique copy of Jane Anger her Protection for Women (STC (2nd ed.) 644), a pamphlet of 1589. It is now in the Huntington Library. McKerrow thought this work might have been a reply to Nashe’s Anatomy of Absurdity. Cf. MCKW A2/4 and Works of Nashe, iv, 2, note.

{2} Britwell Court in Buckinghamshire, now known as Grenville Court. It once contained a remarkable library, assembled mainly by William Henry Miller (1789–1848) but supplemented by other members of the family up to 1898. The collection was dispersed by sale between 1908 and 1970. See Miller’s entry in the ODNB. Graves was, among other things, librarian at Britwell.

10A Chandos Street, Cavendish Square, London, W.—Thanks him for the news of his (Power’s) election to the Bibliographical Society.

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10A Chandos Street, Cavendish Square, W.

Dear Sir

Very many thanks for your letter telling me of my election to the Bibliographical Society {1} & also for a further one about the price of a set of the Transactions. By sheer good luck I found a complete set up to date in Francis Edwards’ catalogue {2} this evening for £15.00 including the News Letter to the end of 1913 so I have bought it & stacked the volumes on my shelves.

As a present may I have the 1899 reprint of Erhard Ratdolt {3} & if its permissible the list of Corrections to the Iconography of Don Quixote? {4}

I have sent a cheque for £2.2.0 to Mr Graves. {5}

Yrs very truly
D’Arcy Power

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Black-edged paper. Formerly pinned to a calling-card (MCKW A1/15b), also black-edged, which was probably sent with it.

{1} Cf. MCKW A1/14. Power was among fourteen members elected on 2 March 1914; the others included Sir Sidney Lee (re-elected without a fee) and the Reform Club. (Ex inf. Robin Myers, honorary archivist of the Bibliographical Society.)

{2} Booksellers and publishers, of 83 High Street, Marylebone. The firm was founded by Francis Edwards in 1855.

{3} Gilbert R. Redgrave, Erhard Ratdolt and His Work at Venice: A Paper read before the Bibliographical Society, November 20, 1893 (1894; reprinted 1899).

{4} H. S. Ashbee, An Iconography of Don Quixote, 1605–1895 (1895). It is not clear when the corrections referred to were issued.

{5} R. E. Graves, the Society’s honorary treasurer.