A letter to Baxter concerning a proposed marriage

  • This material is held at
  • Reference
      GB 123 DWL/RB/1/127
  • Former Reference
      GB 123 Treatises iv.94
  • Dates of Creation
      14 October 1671
  • Physical Description
      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;’

Other Finding Aids

Argent / Black iv.94, Thomas p.25

Bibliography

See Corr 856 (which is this item) and 859.

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