Killigrew, Thomas, 1612-1683, [1635?]

Item — Box: 3, Folder: 17

Scope and Contents

"The Copye of a Letter Written by Mr. Thomas Killigrew." Contemporary manuscript copy of a well-known account of the possession of the nuns of Loudun, composed as a letter by the future dramatist Thomas Killigrew, then aged 23, during his tour of France.

Dates

[1635?]

Creator

From the Collection: Bekker, Balthasar, 1634-1698. (Person)
From the Collection: Löher, Hermann, active active 1676. (Person)
From the Collection: Loos, Cornelius, approximately 1546-1595. (Person)
From the Collection: White, Andrew Dickson, 1832-1918. (Person)
From the Collection: Burr, George Lincoln, 1857-1938. (Person)

Language of Materials

Collection material in Latin, German, Dutch, French, and English.

Extent

3.7 cubic feet. (3.7 cubic feet.)

Additional Description

Related Materials

Other manuscript copies are Bodleian Library, Ashmole manuscript 800, art. iii, ff. 21-27r, Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library 2099(3), ff. 10r-25v, and the British Library, Add. manuscript 27402, ff. 69r-71v. Source: J. Lough and D.E.L. Crane, "Thomas Killigrew and the possessed nuns of Loudon: the text of a letter of 1635," Durham University Journal, v.78, no.2, 1986, p. 259-68.