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Note 37 — Chapter V · THE COLLECTOR OF THE HARLEIAN MSS.

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The original letters of the Elector to Harley are in Lansdowne MS. 1236, ff. 272–294. They range, in date, from 15 December, 1710, to 15 June, 1714. There also are several letters (in autograph) of the Electress Sophia. The earliest of these bears date 26 May, 1707. The latest is undated, but was written in May, 1714, very few days before the writer’s death.

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