Round the (Next) Bend
Simon Adams: Sir Walter Ralegh, 6 July 2000
The Letters of Sir Walter Raleigh
edited by Agnes Latham and Joyce Youings.
Exeter, 403 pp., £45, July 1999,0 85989 527 0 Show More
edited by Agnes Latham and Joyce Youings.
Exeter, 403 pp., £45, July 1999,
“... 1581, and then a number of letters – business letters, essentially – to his half-brother Sir John Gilbert about privateering, shipping and local matters. There is nothing about the Virginia (Roanoke) Plantation, his rise at Court in the 1580s, or his intellectual activities. Only in his correspondence with Sir Robert Cecil in the 1590s do the letters ... ”