Letters from Redgrave Hall. The Bacon Family 1340-1744. by BACON FAMILY. MACCULLOCH, Diarmaid [Editor]

FIRST EDITION, pp.xxxii,168; colour frontispiece, 6 plates & facsimiles; new in dust-wrapper. An important archive of Bacon family letters from the now-vanished Redgrave Hall, centred on Francis Bacon's half-brother Nicholas, Premier Baronet of England, one of the Puritan gentry who ran the government of Elizabethan and Jacobean Suffolk. It also includes papers of the flamboyant courtier and diplomat Sir Robert Drury, a relative by marriage (and original inhabitant of 'Drury Lane'): he was friend and patron to John Donne, who features in the correspondence. Later letters touch on the Civil War in East Anglia.