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Re sale of letter by Andrew Marvell in her possession.

Envelope labelled by William Aldis Wright: 'Correspondence about Letter of Andrew Marvell | purchased by the College for £2.2- | Feb.23', originally enclosing Add. MS.a.88.44-48.

Re purchase of letter by Andrew Marvell

Re purchase of letter by Andrew Marvell

Re purchase of letter by Andrew Marvell by the Vice Master [of Trinity: William Aldis Wright]. Says that her late father [Robert Smith Pape] was trustee and sole legatee under the will of the late Miss [Mary] Lundie of Hull, who 'had a very many valuable documents'; the letter passed to Florence Pape's brother and then, when he died, to her.

Re purchase of letter by Andrew Marvell

First line: ‘When daring Blood his Rents to have regain’d’. Subscribed: ‘Marvell. 1670.’

Prose.

First line: ‘Draw England ruin’d, by what was giv’n before’. Last line: ‘Which most, the Dutch, or Parliament they fear.’ Subscribed: ‘Marvel. 1667.’

First lines: ‘Painter, once more thy Pincil reassume | And draw me in one Scene London and Rome’. Subscribed: ‘Marvel. 1670.’

First line: ‘As t’other Night in Bed I thinking lay’. Subscribed: ‘Marvel. 1672.’

First line: ‘Spread a large Canvas, Painter to Contain’. Subscribed: ‘Marvel 1674.’

First line: ‘What can be the Mistery, why Charing-Cross’.

First line: ‘While lazy Prelates lean’d their Mitred Heads’. The date in the heading is a mistake; Marvell died on 18 Aug. 1678.

First line: ‘From the dark Stigian Lake, I come’.

First line: ‘Ah Raleigh! when thou didst thy Breath Resign’.

First line: ‘As City’s that to their fierce Conquerors yeild’.

22 lines. First line: ‘When the Seale is given to a talking Fool’.

First line: ‘The Londoners, Gent: to the King do present’.

First line: ‘We read in Prophane, and Sacred Records’.