The Portledge papers
Subtitle: being extracts from the letters of Richard Lapthorne, gent, of Hatton Garden, London, to Richard Coffin esq. of Portledge, Bideford, Devon, from December 10th, 1687-August 7th, 1697
By: Edited by Russell J. Kerr & Ida Coffin Duncan; with a preface by Sir Edmund Gosse.
Contributors: Kerr, Russell James, 1863-; Duncan, Ida Coffin.
Publisher: J. Cape
Published: 1928
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
Subjects: Coffin, Richard, -- 1622-1698.; Book collecting.; Great Britain -- History -- Sources -- William and Mary, 1689-1702.; London (England) -- History -- Sources.
Notes: "The Lapthorne letters were examined by the Royal commission on historical manuscripts in 1874 and many extracts from them ... were printed in the Blue books."--Introd., p. 11.

Lapthorne acted as "book-buyer and general purveyor of gossip" to Coffin.  Cf Pref.