Reference code
DWL/RB/iv.94
Level of description
item
Title
A letter to Baxter concerning a proposed marriage
Date
14 October 1671
Extent and Medium
Extent:ff 317-319 (f 318v and f 319r are blank), 361 x 243 mm.
Scope and content
An anonymous letter to Baxter, stating (and also including in shorter form) a case of proposed marriage, between a conformist man and a nonconforming woman. Both papers by unknown hands: directed to Baxter at Totteridge. His judgement thereon seems to be contained in Treatise ii.34. Opens with, '‘Honorable Sir, I am A person unknown to you, only by reading Some of your Books, which have rendred you in my Judgment. One the most rationall and most conscientious, and most edifying Christian Teacher as this day our Country inioyeth;’
Finding aids
Argent / Black iv.94, Thomas p.25
Publication note
See Corr 856 (which is this item) and 859.
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