Edmund Waller
"The following letter is printed from the original in the hand-writing
of the celebrated EDMUND WALLER, and is now first published.
Agreeably to the directions of the possessor of it, we have preserved the
original spelling, and all the peculiarities belonging to it. It is without date,
but appears to have been written before the Restoration." (17.9-10). The
letter was printed in 1948 by Paul H. Hardacre from the Huntington
Library autograph manuscript (HM 22.641) in the Huntington
Library
Quarterly (11. 431-433), an extract having earlier appeared in a
Maggs Brothers Catalogue. The EM printing is not
mentioned.
Some differences in spelling exist between the versions in the
EM and the HLQ, and in one instance
(HLQ, p. 433, ll. 8-9) where the later version has "to to
[sic]"
the earlier has "so to," which makes acceptable sense. An editorial footnote
in the EM mistakenly identifies the publisher of Hobbes's
works
as William Crooke, rather
than Andrew Crooke, but in the next two footnotes there is matter
additional to the corresponding footnotes in the HLQ.
Hardacre
elected to spell out contractions and reduce capital letters; purists may wish
to see the untampered-with text.