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Later published in 'Profitable Instructions Describing what Speciall Observations are to be Taken by Travellers in all Nations' (1633), described elsewhere in this database. See http://www.celm-ms.org.uk/repositories/british-library-harley-6000.html, which notes 'Copy, in a small secretary hand, headed ‘The Earle of Essex advise to the Earle of Rutland in his Jorny’, and dated ‘Jan: 4:’ In a folio volume of state papers and speeches, in several secretary hands, 124 leaves, in modern mottled calf gilt. Early 17th century.' There is an extensive scholarly literature on this letter which includes Paul E. J. Hammer in ‘The Earl of Essex, Fulke Greville, and the Employment of Scholars’, Studies in Philology. 91/2 (1994), 167-80; and Paul E. J. Hammer, ‘Letters of Travel Advice from the Earl of Essex to the Earl of Rutland: Some Comments’, Philological Quarterly, 74/3 (1995), 317-22. It is likely that the first letter was written substantially by Francis Bacon. On it's authorship see Paul E. J. Hammer, ‘Essex and Europe: Evidence from Confidential Instructions by the Earl of Essex, 1595–6’, The English Historical Review, 111 (1996), 357-81; Brian Vickers (ed.), Francis Bacon: The Major Works; and Alan Stewart (ed.), 'The Oxford Francis Bacon I: Early Writings, 1584–1596' (2012). |
