The Corsini Letters

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ISBN-10:

1445600854

ISBN-13:

9781445600857

Released: Jul 12, 2011
Publisher: Amberley
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages

Description:

During the late 1980s, a collection of sixteenth century merchant letters appeared for sale. Over four sales at Christies, the letters, all addressed to the Corsini firm of London merchants, were scattered to the four corners of the Earth. Thankfully, copies were made of each of the letters, which gave an insight into Tudor life both in Britain and abroad, and these were placed in the Guildhall Library, London.Comprising some 3,600 letters and other documents, the Corsini letters comprised the largest extant archive for any English merchants of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Although philatelic essays have been published on aspects of the archive, the Corsini Letters is the first book to look at the archive as a whole, detailing why it is important, giving a breakdown of the contents of the letters, and yielding a fascinating insight into Elizabethan life. From letters about pirates and spices to one of the first communications from the small West African island of St Thomas, the archive is destined to become an important research tool for those interested in this period of history.

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