Five love-letters from a nun to a cavalier.
By: Done out of French into English, by Sir Roger L'Estrange.
Contributors: L'Estrange, Roger, Sir, 1616-1704. tr.; Pre-1801 Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)
Edition: 2d ed.
Publisher: Printed by H. Gellibrand, for R. Wellington ... and E. Rumball
Published: 1702
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 168
Notes: Page [167] blank.
Added t.-p.: Cinque lettres d'amour d'une religieuse portugaise. Escrites au chevalier de C. officier françois en Portugal. Derniere edition.
Reprint of the edition of 1701? The first edition of L'Estrange's translation appeared in 1678 and was reprinted in 1693.
The original letters, probably written in Portuguese, and known as "Lettres portugaises" are lost. The name of the author, rediscovered by Boissonade in 1810, does not appear in the older editions. The names of the addressee "Marquis de Chamilly", and of the translator "Cuilleraque [i.e. Lavergne de Guilleragnes] were mentioned in the prologue to the edition bearing imprint Cologne, P. du Marteau, 1669, and in some of the later editions. (cf. note under entry for ed. of 1682)