Southwark, Bear Garden 3, Early 17th Century

Meredith Morgan's Letter to Philip Henslowe

Dulwich College: MS II

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Mr Henslowe my lord would haue you to receaue from this bearer This wolfe he sende vnto you. And for his keeping he will speake with you hereafter when you Come hither. so I rest

Your loving freind

(signed) Meredith Morgan

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    For an abstract of this record and details of its transcription in other printed sources, see the related EMLoT event.

  • Document Description

    Record title: Meredith Morgan's Letter to Philip Henslowe
    Repository: Dulwich College
    Shelfmark: MS II
    Repository location: Dulwich

    This undated letter, regarding a wolf, presumably for the Bear Garden, must have been sent before 1616 (Henslowe died in January 1615/16). No further information about the sender has been discovered.

    For an image of the original manuscript, see the Henslowe-Alleyn Digitisation Project.

    undated; English; 200mm x 302mm; single sheet; generally good condition, small worm holes; originally folded and sealed (remains of seal visible); endorsed f 74v: 'To my very loving
    freind Mr Henslowe
    or in his absenns
    to Iacob. at the
    beare garden
    (signed) the <..> R.' Now mounted on modern guard and bound with other documents in a 19th-c. brown cloth binding with gold tooling, title on spine: 'DULWICH | COLLEGE. | ALLEYN | PAPERS. | VOL.II. | BEAR | GARDEN | 1598–1626 |.' Foliated 74 in pencil by Warner; cited on page 80 of his Catalogue.

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