The Letters of Sir Walter Ralegh

Autorentext
Agnes Latham was Reader in English Literature, Bedford College London and editor of the standard edition of Sir Walter Ralegh's poetry. Joyce Youings was Emeritus Professor of History in the University of Exeter and was well known as a specialist in Tudor history and as an editor of Tudor documents.

Klappentext
This edition contains the full text, in the original spelling, with modern punctuation of all known surviving letters of Sir Walter Ralegh. The letters help to reconcile the family man, never happier than at home in the West Country estate, with one who is revered, especially in North America, as the founder and inspirer of English overseas settlements. They show him drawn both to towards his native West Country, where he was not universally admired, and towards the Court at Westminster where lay the determination of the success or failure of his enterprises.

Zusammenfassung
This edition will replace the long out-of-print edition of Edward Edwards published in 1868. It contains the full text, in the original spelling, with modern punctuation, of all known surviving letters, 240 in all, compared with Edwards' 160, in most cases taken from the original manuscripts, many never before published.

Inhalt
List of the Letters, vii; List of Plates, xv; List of Abbreviations, xvi; FOREWORD by Emeritus Professor David Quinn, FBA, xix; PREFACE, xxi; INTRODUCTION; The Collection, xxv; Previous Publication of the Letters, xxx; A Brief Biography: Sir Walter Ralegh 1554-1618, xxxiv; The Recipients of the Letters, xxxvii; The Subject Matter of the Letters; Ireland and Virginia, xxxviii; Ships, Privateering and the Sea Wars, xl; The Queen and the Court, xlii; Patronage, xliv; The Sherborne Estate, xlvi; The Westcountryman, xlviii; Guiana, li; The Man behind the Pen, liv; The Writing of the Letters; Spelling and Style, lvii; Ralegh's Clerks and Carriers, lviii. Editorial Conventions, lx; Acknowledgements, lxi; THE LETTERS, 1; APPENDICES; 1. Letter 31a. To Master [James] Gold from the Court, 10 October [1589], 379; 2. Sir Walter Ralegh's Will, 8-10 July 1597, 381; 3. Agnes M.C. Latham: Bibliography, 388; INDEX, 389.

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