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- Close section Front Matter
- Close sectionThe Letters
- Letter 1 She is glad to hear that T. is back in England
- Letter 2 What had he done all that while?
- Letter 3 He has given his account and she give her story from their parting.
- Letter 4 T. has commented on her accounts of Sir Justinian Isham & Sir T. Osborne
- Letter 5 She recounts one of her dreams. Sir J. Isham. Sir T. Osborne.
- Letter 6 His early rising. Her friendship. Her coming to town. Fortune.
- Letter 7 He has sent her seals. His story about Lady Diana. Algernon Sidney.
- Close sectionVisit to London 12–22 February 1652/3
- Letter 8 Her cold. Back at Chicksands.
- Letter 9 She had written on arriving home. Her cold. His trouble at their parting.
- Letter 10 The widow (Mrs. W. Thorold). Infusion of steel. Sir John T. Mrs. Cl.
- Letter 11 Her taking steel. Jane with her. Almanzor and Alcidiana. Has he received the books?
- Letter 12 Jane leaving for Guernsey. D. would not stand between T. and his father
- Letter 13 Sir John T. and Mrs. Cl. Her recent advice to him not to refuse a good offer.
- Letter 14 Asks T. to let his boy deliver the books and letter for Lady Diana.
- Letter 15 Jane has been with T. and has told him of D's melancholy.
- Letter 16 Signed 'friend and servant'.
- Letter 17 Nursing her father. Had he sent her letter and Cleopatra? His journey still in prospect.
- Letter 18 She had written kind things in a dream. The two Spensers. Cromwell's coup d'état
- Letter 19 Her last letter had frightened him. He has sent the first chapter [of his Diary].
- Letter 20 She had missed her fit the day before. John D. and H. Molle there.
- Letter 21 The Sheriff. Maybe she had dreamed that T. had met H. O.
- Letter 22 Mr. Arbury [Erbury]. She agrees that there is little likelihood of a change in their fortune.
- Letter 23 A letter had come with broken seal. The ladies at Heam's. Lord Chando's duel.
- Letter 24 T's dream of her. Molle there. Shepherdesses. She wishes T. with her.
- Letter 25 T. is pleased that she wished him with her. H.O. has offered her fresh servants since he came down
- Letter 26 Sir Justinian's proposals. Dispute with H.O. T. has said 'tis but reasonable he should see her
- Letter 27 Tom Cheke's story. T. must not complain that he does not see her. H.O. has gone to town
- Letter 28 T. has forbidden her to eat fruit. She believes too easily but not out of vanity as thinking she deserves love
- Letter 29 Refers to her having said that she had not the vanity to believe she deserved his kindness
- Letter 30 H.O. (on 4 July?) riding down from London had met the carrier going up and asked him if he had letters of Dorothy's
- Letter 31 H.O.'s seach for her letters. Her two brothers. 'John ''maliciously'' said …'
- Letter 32 T. has asked his father to get her an Irish dog and has given his opinion of John O.
- Letter 33 Jane back. Jane had left town before T.'s return, but brought a report of his melancholy
- Letter 34 She had read T.'s letter to his brother. T. to be merry. He confesses it is an age
- Letter 35 He said that her letters are his only happiness. She will not play the part of a Mistress
- Letter 36 Her reading T.'s letter to his brother. She has to chide him for two faults.
- Letter 37 'When I chide … you need not studdy … for Excuses, I can …
- Letter 38 'If I want of kindness were the only crime I exempted from pardon.'
- Letter 39 Her previous letter, addressed to Copyn, had been lost
- Letter 40 T. had feared that others had said finer things to her than he
- Letter 41 Dinner with a rich widow (Lady Briers). H. O. disputes with D. on the advantages of the riches
- Letter 42 T. has given her arguments to confute H. O. if he should enter on the dispute again
- Letter 43 Her plans for coming to town depend on the letter of Sir T. Peyton
- Letter 44 T. has denied his melancholy. He must take care of his health. T.'s 'wife'.
- Letter 45 Jane says that T. deceives D. when he denies his melancholy
- Close sectionVisit to London 28 Oct.–25 Nov. 1653
- Letter 46 Back at Chicksands. Looking ill. Asks T. to send back her picture
- Letter 47 [A letter missing?] The end of their misfortunes to submit to what they cannot avoid
- Letter 48 H. O. went to London the day after T.'s letter should have arrived [he went 9 Dec.].
- Letter 49 He has called her false and inconsistent and wished her a prince for a husband
- Letter 50 No, she has no more to do in the world than weary of it
- Letter 51 Bids him preserve himself from the violences of his passion and vent it on her, though she was never false. She desires his pardon
- Letter 52 She has already written by his boy. She would give her reputation for his ease but cannot give him hopes
- Letter 53 Seeing that it is impossible to cure him, she confesses that she had never had any hope of wearing out her passion
- Letter 54 Temple has just left Chicksands and they are reunited
- Letter 55 She has a new admirer [James Beverley]. Has received tweezes and essences
- Letter 56 T. has reproached her for caring for the world's opinion. She defines her passion
- Letter 57 T. has given over his reproaches. Defends herself for desiring the world's esteem
- Letter 58 T. has sent stories of Lady Newport and others. The liberties taken by young people now that there is no Court
- Letter 59 Dr. Jeremy Taylor on the blessedness of resigning one's will to that of another
- Letter 60 James is to return to London on Tuesday, and bring news of T.
- Letter 61 Her father's death. Her dependence on relatives. H. O. spreads her love-story widely
- Letter 62 T. has written from Dublin. Her engagement now generally known
- Letter 63 On not getting a letter he had been urgent to come over, but had been dissuaded by his father
- Letter 64 A letter from T. has cheered her. She is pleased that he has forgiven H. O.
- Letter 65 Sir John's illness. T. had missed a letter from her
- Letter 66 T. has said that happiness is what one thinks happiness
- Letter 67 She had been out dining the day before [with H. O. and Lady Gargrave] and had been out of humour
- Letter 68 About to start for Kent, going to Gravesend by water in stormy weather
- Letter 69 In a crowded house
- Letter 70 She is sorry that her recommendation of a servant came too late
- Letter 71 T. has been alarmed by Letter 68. He has not received Letter 69
- Letter 72 She is suffering from late hours, in this point Sir T. Peyton submits to his wife, though he is often fault-finding
- Letter 73 Had received on the 1st his letter of 24. Aug. T. is on his way to England
- Letter 74 T. has been for some days in London
- Letter 75 Was kept up till 3 last night and has been sleeping since dinner
- Letter 76 She never feared that Sir J. T. would refuse her request
- Letter 77 Bids T. come and see her at Knowlton and bring word of his father's intentions
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