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Letter of Robert Devereaux, Earl of Essex Public Deposited
- Contents
- Author: Essex, Robert Devereux, Earl of, 1565-1601 ** Language: English. Incipit: My verye good L. I am so much beholding
- Rights statement
- Time Period
- 13 June 1597
- Place of Origin
- England
- Description
- Letter of Robert Devereux, earl of Essex, dated 13 June 1597 and addressed to "the L(ord) highe Treasourer of England" -- i.e., William Cecil, Baron Burghley, who held that post from 1572 until his death in 1598. Essex writes on behalf of a Mr. Crompton, apparently to ask forgiveness of a loan. Wax and paper seal.
- Contributors
- Records created or enhanced by the Peripheral Manuscript Project’s Description team, led by Dr. Elizabeth K. Hebbard and Dr. Sarah L. Noonan.
- Source Identifier
- luc_005_001
- Keywords
- England
- Letter
- Paper
- Seals
- Financial records
- Title
- Letter of Robert Devereaux, Earl of Essex
- Author
- Essex, Robert Devereux, Earl of, 1565-1601
- Physical Description
- Physical type: Document. Support material: Paper (material). Extent: 2. Page dimensions (in mm): 219 x 206 (bifolium 219 x 412). Written area (in mm): 70 x 150. Script: Documentary. Layout: Eleven unruled lines.
- Language
- English
- Alternate Identifier
- UA1983.62 (Accession number)
- Persistent URL
- Source Metadata Identifier
- Associated Names
- Cecil, William, Lord Burghley, 1520-1598 (Addressee)
- Date Created
- 16th century
- Owning Institution
- Loyola University Chicago Archives & Special Collections. Chicago, IL.
- Provenance
- An information card filed with this item states that it is part of the "Mandel collection" donated by Leon Mandel II (1902-1974), Lt. Colonel in the Army Air Forces during WWII, and president of Mandel Brothers, a Chicago-based department store. Records of the Mandel gift show that gifts were made from 2 January 1951 through 1957, but do not record this letter among the items donated. Now part of the Autograph Collection which is a compilation created by previous archivists of items from different collections and gifts including the Carrigan Collection, the Mandel gift, the Berelman gift, the Halstead Collection, the Wayne gift, and Loyola University Chicago records.
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