Sir Walter Ralegh instructs his son, twice

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Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 616-619

  Tromly, Fred B ^a  

^a TRENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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DOI: 10.1093/notesj/gjp215     Document Type: Article

References (14)

1. Latham, 'Sir Walter Ralegh's Instructions to his Son', in Elizabethan and Jacobean Studies Presented to Frank Percy Wilson (Oxford, 1959), 198-218
2. The Letters of Sir Walter Ralegh, ed. Agnes Latham and Joyce Youings (Exeter, 1999), 319. Quotations of the letter are taken from this text (317-18)
3. Lefranc, Sir Walter Ralegh Écrivain (Paris, 1968), 52. ('Miss Latham lui a ajouté en 1959 des passages importants demeurés inédits jusqu'à cette date.')
4. May, Sir Walter Ralegh (Boston, 1989), 68
5. Beal, Index of English Literary Manuscripts. Vol. I. Pt. 2 (London, 1980), 370
6. Rowse, Ralegh and the Throckmortons (London, 1962), 326
7. Sir Walter Raleighs Instructions to His Sonne: and to Posteritie (Benjamin Fisher: 1632), 83-4
8. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust, Part I, trans. Peter Salm, rev. edn (Toronto, 1985), 45. ('Was du ererbt von deinen Vätern hast, / Erwirb es, um es zu besitzen.')
9. For instance, May (Sir Walter Ralegh, 68) opts for 1603
10. while Lefranc (Sir Walter Ralegh Écrivain, 52) and many other commentators favour 1607 or a few years later
11. The letter to Lady Ralegh is printed in Latham and Youings, The Letters of Sir Walter Ralegh, 263-6. In MS. Add. 22587, the letter to young Walter immediately precedes the one to his wife, while in MS. Petyt 583.18 it immediately follows the conjugal letter
12. Ralegh, The History of the World, ed. C. A. Patrides (Philadelphia, 1971), 156
13. Anthony á Wood, Athenae Oxonienses, ed. Philip Bliss, 3rd rev. edn (Rivington, 1817), 3: 170
14. For a compressed account of young Walter's wayward deeds, see Rowse, Ralegh and the Throckmortons, 324-6. The present author is writing a biography of this tragic figure