Title: An autograph letter of Ben Jonson to his friend George Garrard containing his epitaph on Cecilia Bulstrode who died the 4th of August 1609
Description: This letter, containing an Epitaph on Cecilia Bulstrode, is in the Amy Lowell Collection in the Harvard College Library. It was formerly in the Bromley-Davenport Collection at Bagington Hall and has been printed by Percy Simpson in The Times Literary Supplement for 6 March 1930. A contemporary copy of the Epitaph in the Chetham Library was transcribed and printed in Notes and Queries, 3rd Series, Vol. IV, 5 September 1863. In the Harvard manuscript, Jonson made a marginal correction, substituting "it" for "here" in the thirteenth line of the Epitaph. -- Leaf [4].
Subjects: Epitaphs
People: Cecilia Bulstrode