Item 4 - Letter from R. E. Graves to R. B. McKerrow

1 folded sheet, 1 envelope

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’.