MRP: Letter from Henry Oxinden (of Barham) to Elizabeth Dallison (his cousin)
Letter from Henry Oxinden (of Barham) to Elizabeth Dallison (his cousin)
(MS. 28,000, f. 360v.)
Printed as Letter CXCVI in D.K. Gardiner (1933:226)
Undated, but grouped by D.K. Gardiner with other 1641 letters
(DRAFT)
DEARE COZIN,
I am not a little melancholie for want of your companie, wishing I could bee so happie as to enioy. I desire that I might have your picture by mee, that I might take pleasure in beholding it: surely the substance of that body is deare to him that will rightly value the shadow thereof, as will doe
Your affectionate friend and servant
H. OXINDEN
I am most extremely vexed at the Lady Baker, in so much as you cannot doe mee a greater favor than out of relation to mee to perswade her to bee with you a fourthnight, as I am confident you may, and this I will estimate as a great (unfinished)
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