First line: ‘We read in Prophane, and Sacred Records’.
First line: ‘The Londoners, Gent: to the King do present’.
22 lines. First line: ‘When the Seale is given to a talking Fool’.
First line: ‘As City’s that to their fierce Conquerors yeild’.
First line: ‘Ah Raleigh! when thou didst thy Breath Resign’.
First line: ‘From the dark Stigian Lake, I come’.
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: ‘What can be the Mistery, why Charing-Cross’.
First line: ‘Spread a large Canvas, Painter to Contain’. Subscribed: ‘Marvel 1674.’
First line: ‘As t’other Night in Bed I thinking lay’. Subscribed: ‘Marvel. 1672.’
First lines: ‘Painter, once more thy Pincil reassume | And draw me in one Scene London and Rome’. Subscribed: ‘Marvel. 1670.’
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.’
Prose.
First line: ‘When daring Blood his Rents to have regain’d’. Subscribed: ‘Marvell. 1670.’
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
Re purchase of letter by Andrew Marvell
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.
