For convenience of reference, we have numbered the letters in the volume consecutively, from 1 to 129. This list gives each letter’s number, its first few words, its addressee, and the page numbers on which it appears in the volume. The list of addressees is not regularized or corrected, but rather reports what is given in the text except that when the addressee is implied (as in "To your selfe"), the name of the addressee has been supplied in brackets. For those letters for which no addressee is either specified or implied, the bracketed name has been supplied by the editors of the forthcoming Oxford edition of the letters.
Letter # |
First Words |
Addressee |
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Page # |
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1 |
I could make some guesse |
Bridget White |
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1–2 |
2 |
I think the letters which I send to you |
Mis. B. W. |
|
3–4 |
3 |
This letter which I send enclosed hath |
To the same [Bridget White] |
|
4–5 |
4 |
I have but small comfort in this letter |
Mrs. B. W. |
|
5–6 |
5 |
Those things which God dissolves at |
Lady Kingsmel |
|
7–10 |
6 |
I make account that this writing of letters |
T. Lucey |
|
11–19 |
7 |
I make accompt that this book hath |
Edward Herbert |
|
20–21 |
8 |
I had need do somewhat towards you |
Robert Carre |
|
21–22 |
9 |
Amongst many other dignities which |
Countesse of Bedford |
|
22–24 |
10 |
Of my ability to doe your ladiship |
Countess of Montgomery |
|
24–26 |
11 |
If a whole year be but Annus ab Annulo |
Sir H. R. |
|
26–31 |
12 |
This letter hath more merit, then one |
Sir H. G. |
|
31–37 |
13 |
I Am sorry, if your care of me have made |
George Garet |
|
37–38 |
14 |
I have not received that Letter, which by |
George Garet |
|
38–39 |
15 |
Though there be much merit, in the |
Martha Garet |
|
40–41 |
16 |
It is an ease to your friends abroad, that |
Thomas Roe |
|
41–42 |
17 |
I am not weary of writing; it is the |
H. Goodere |
|
42–48 |
18 |
Every Tuesday I make account that I turn |
H. Goodere |
|
48–54 |
19 |
If this which I send you inclosed give me |
H. Goodere |
|
54–57 |
20 |
It is in our State ever held for a good sign |
To the same [H. Goodere] |
|
58–60 |
21 |
It should be no interruption to your |
Sir H.G. |
|
61–64 |
22 |
Though my friendship be good for |
[Goodere] |
|
65–66 |
23 |
I do not remember that ever I have seen a |
Countesse of Bedford |
|
67–68 |
24 |
Because things be conserved by the same |
H. Goodere |
|
68–69 |
25 |
I hope you are now welcome to London |
Sir H.G. |
|
70–73 |
26 |
I writ to you once this week before; yet |
Sir G. F. |
|
73–78 |
27 |
Because I am in a place and season where |
Sir H.G. |
|
78–80 |
28 |
You may remember that long since |
H. Goodere |
|
81–82 |
29 |
You husband my time thriftily, when |
Sir H.G. |
|
82–85 |
30 |
This Tuesday morning, which hath |
Sir H.G. |
|
85–88 |
31 |
If this Letter find you in a progresse, or |
To your selfe [Goodere] |
|
89–93 |
32 |
I am near the execution of that purpose |
Lord G. H. |
|
93–96 |
33 |
Nature hath made all bodies alike, by |
Sir H.G. |
|
96–99 |
34 |
At some later reading, I was more |
Henry Goodere |
|
100–105 |
35 |
If you were here, you would not think |
Sir G. M. |
|
105–108 |
36 |
I send not my Letters as tribute, nor |
Sir H.G. |
|
109–112 |
37 |
Sir Germander Pool, your noble friend and |
To your selfe [Goodere] |
|
112–113 |
38 |
In the History or style of friendship |
Sir H.G. |
|
114–116 |
39 |
Because evennesse conduces as much to |
Henry Goodere |
|
116–117 |
40 |
I would not omit this, not Commodity |
Sir I. H. |
|
118–119 |
41 |
That which is at first but a visitation |
H. Wootton |
|
120–127 |
42 |
If I would go out of my way for excuses |
H. Goodere |
|
127–134 |
43 |
All our moralities are but our |
H. Wotton |
|
134–137 |
44 |
I write to you our of my poor |
A.V. Merced |
|
137–139 |
45 |
When I saw your good Countesse |
H. Wootton |
|
140–143 |
46 |
This 14 of November last I received |
Sir H.G. |
|
143–146 |
47 |
Though you escape my lifting up of |
H. Goodere |
|
146–147 |
48 |
Your Son left here a Letter for me |
H. G. |
|
148–150 |
49 |
I love to give you advantages upon me |
Sir H.G. |
|
150–151 |
50 |
I gave no answer to the Letter I received |
Sir R. D. |
|
151–153 |
51 |
I have but one excuse for not sending |
H. Goodere |
|
154–159 |
52 |
To you that are not easily scandalized |
Sir H.G. |
|
160–164 |
53 |
This evening which is 5 October, I |
Sir T.H. |
|
165–167 |
54 |
I receive this 14 your Letter of the 10 |
Sir H.G. |
|
167–171 |
55 |
After I have told you, that the Lady |
Sir H.G. |
|
171–174 |
56 |
It is true that M. Gherard told you, I had |
H. Goodere |
|
174–176 |
57 |
At your conveniency, I pray send my |
Sir H.G. |
|
176–177 |
58 |
I heard not from you this week |
Sir H.G. |
|
178–179 |
59 |
I receive this heare that I begin this |
G.K. |
|
179–181 |
60 |
Between the time of making up my |
Sir G. B. |
|
182[183]–184 |
61 |
I would have intermitted this week |
Sir G. P. |
|
184–186 |
62 |
I have scarce had at any time any thing so |
T. Lucy |
|
187–190 |
63 |
Since I received a Letter by your sonne |
Sir H.G. |
|
191–192[190] |
64 |
The Messenger who brought me |
Sir H.G. |
|
192[190]–194 |
65 |
I writ to you yesterday taking the |
Sir H.G. |
|
194–198 |
66 |
Your Letter comes to me, at Grace after |
Tho. Lucy |
|
199–200 |
67 |
It is one of my blinde Meditations to |
Sir G. B. |
|
201 |
68 |
Agreeably to my fortune, and thoughts |
H. Goodere |
|
202–203 |
69 |
I cannot obey you, if you go to morrow |
Sir H.G. |
|
203–204 |
70 |
I have bespoke you a New-years-gift, that |
Sir T. R. |
|
204 |
71 |
I speak to you before God, I am so much |
Henry Goodere |
|
205 |
72 |
The little businesse which you left in |
G.H. |
|
206–207 |
73 |
I send you here a Translation; but it is |
To your self [Goodere] |
|
207–208 |
74 |
Because in your last Letter, I have an |
Tho. Lucy |
|
208–210 |
75 |
This is a second Letter: the enclosed |
Sir H.G. |
|
211–212 |
76 |
I live so farre removed, that even the ill |
Sir H.G. |
|
212–213 |
77 |
I cannot yet serve you with those books |
Sir H.G. |
|
213–217 |
78 |
I had destined all this Tuesday, for the |
Sir H.G. |
|
217–221 |
79 |
This first of Aprill I received yours of |
Thomas Lucy |
|
222–225 |
80 |
As you are a great part of my businesse |
Henry Goodere |
|
225–226 |
81 |
This 25 I have your letter of 21, which |
Sir H.G. |
|
226–227 |
82 |
I can scarce doe any more this week then |
F. H. |
|
228 |
83 |
I have the honour of your Letter, which |
Sir H.G. |
|
229–232 |
84 |
Our blessed Saviour, who abounds in |
Henry Goodere |
|
233–237 |
85 |
Neither your Letters, nor silence, needs |
G. G. |
|
237–239 |
86 |
I should not only send you an account by |
G. G. |
|
240–241 |
87 |
This advantage you, and my other |
[Garet] |
|
241–244 |
88 |
I am not come out of England, if I |
Lady G. |
|
244–245 |
89 |
The first of this moneth I received a |
To your selfe [Garet] |
|
246–248 |
90 |
Though I have left my bed, I have not |
Robert Karre |
|
249–250 |
91 |
Age becomes nothing better then |
To your selfe [Garet] |
|
251–253 |
92 |
It is one ill Affection of a desperate |
[Goodere] |
|
253–257 |
93 |
I cannot chuse but make it a presage that |
George Gerrard |
|
258–259 |
94 |
This is the fourth of this moneth, and |
George Gerrard |
|
259–261 |
95 |
All your other Letters, which came |
To your selfe [Garet] |
|
262–263 |
96 |
I would I were so good an Alchimist to |
George Garrat |
|
264–265 |
97 |
The dignity, and the good fortune due |
To your fair sister [M. Garet] |
|
266–267 |
98 |
Because to remain in this sort guilty in |
Henry Goodere |
|
267–269 |
99 |
I had rather like the first best; not onely |
Robert Karre |
|
270–271 |
100 |
I have often sinned towards you, with a |
Robert Karre |
|
271–272 |
101 |
Perchance others may have told you |
Robert Karre |
|
273–274 |
102 |
I make account that it is a day of great |
Robert Karre |
|
274–275 |
103 |
If I would calumniate, I could say no |
Robert Karre |
|
276–277 |
104 |
The same houre that I received the |
Robert Karre |
|
278 |
105 |
This is but a Postscript to the last |
Robert Karre |
|
279 |
106 |
Your letter was the more welcome to |
George Gherard |
|
280–281 |
107 |
I know not which of us wonne it by the |
George Garrard |
|
281–283 |
108 |
I thank you for expressing your love to |
George Garrard |
|
283–284 |
109 |
I do not make account that I am come to |
George Gherard |
|
285 |
110 |
When we thinke of a friend,we |
George Garret |
|
286–287 |
111 |
I am come to that tendernesse of |
Robert Karre |
|
288–289 |
112 |
After I was grown to be your |
Viscount of Rochester |
|
290–291 |
113 |
Lest you should thinke your selfe too |
Robert Karre |
|
292–293 |
114 |
I make shift to think that I promised you |
To your selfe [Karre] |
|
294–295 |
115 |
I have always your leave to use my |
Robert Karre |
|
295–296 |
116 |
I sought you yesterday with a purpose |
Robert Karre |
|
297–299 |
117 |
I amend to no purpose, nor have any |
Robert Karre |
|
299–300 |
118 |
When I was almost at Court, I met |
Robert Karre |
|
301 |
119 |
I was loth to bee the onely man who |
Robert Karre |
|
302 |
120 |
Your mans haste gives me the |
Robert Karre |
|
303 |
121 |
If I shall never be able to do you any reall |
To your selfe [Karre] |
|
304 |
122 |
A few hours after I had the honour of |
Robert Karre |
|
305–306 |
123 |
I humbly thanke you, for this |
Robert Karre |
|
306–307 |
124 |
I was this morning at your door |
Robert Karre |
|
307–310 |
125 |
If I should refuse the liberty which you |
Robert Karre |
|
311 |
126 |
I pursued my ambition of having the |
Robert Karre |
|
312–313 |
127 |
This morning I have received a |
Robert Karre |
|
313–314 |
128 |
I have obeyed the forms of our Church |
Robert Karre |
|
315–316 |
129 |
But that it is sweetned by your |
Mris Cokain |
|
316–318 |