The letters of Sir Walter Ralegh
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The letters of Sir Walter Ralegh
University of Exeter Press, c1999
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  Gunma
  Saitama
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  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
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  United Kingdom
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Description and Table of Contents
Description
This edition of the letters of Sir Walter Ralegh 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. All are extensively annotated, many have been newly dated and corrected; there is a substantial Introduction by Joyce Youings.
The letters help to reconcile the family man, never happier than when at home on his estate in the West Country, with one who is revered, especially in North America, as the founder and inspirer of English overseas settlement. They show him drawn both 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. Never before have we been able to get as near to understanding the strengths and weaknesses of one of the best-known figures of English history, the man who was both patriot and European; courtier and failed politician; soldier and poet; owner of ships and organiser of privateering ventures yet a reluctant sailor; greedy for personal wealth and social status but apparently ready to plead the case of the poor and disadvantaged.
Table of Contents
- 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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