| Authorship Notes |
Devereux's letter is a discourse on travel as an opportunity for moral growth and development of the faculties of the traveller. The surviving manuscript of this letter is described elsewhere in this database as 'First Letter of Advice to the Earl of Rutland'.
There is an extensive scholarly literature on this letter which includes Paul E. J. Hammer in âThe Earl of Essex, Fulke Greville, and the Employment of Scholarsâ, Studies in Philology. 91/2 (1994), 167-80; and Paul E. J. Hammer, âLetters of Travel Advice from the Earl of Essex to the Earl of Rutland: Some Commentsâ, Philological Quarterly, 74/3 (1995), 317-22. It is likely that this first letter was written substantially by Francis Bacon. On it's authorship see Paul E. J. Hammer, âEssex and Europe: Evidence from Confidential Instructions by the Earl of Essex, 1595â6â, 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, 1584â1596' (2012). |
