Chetham's Library MS A.2.5

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Hartlib, Samuel (d.1670?): Letters to Dr. John Worthington (1618-1671). Transcribed in September 1788 from Baker's MS at Emmanuel College, Cambridge by Isaac Reed. Also, printed version of a collection of epistles written by Dr. Worthington to Mr. Hartlib.

Endpapers
Endpaper 1r: Notes (mostly in ink) by James Crossley, giving bibliography for Hartlib and stating that these letters from Hartlib to Worthington which had been copied by Reed were not published. (The letters were published by Crossley in the Chetham Society, o.s.13, 1847.)

Endpaper 2: Copy in Crossley's hand of a letter from Sam. Hartlib, dated Westminster, 10th  September 1659, 'From MSS penes Mr. Thorpe'.
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Endpaper 3: Copy in Crossley's hand of a letter from Sam. Hartlib to John Aubrey, London, 8th March 1652.
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Title page: Letters | from | Mr. Hartlib | to | Dr. Worthington | Copies at Emmanuel | College Septr 1788 from | Baker's MSS. | I.R.
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Text follows on pages numbered 1-311. (Pp. 312-315 contain copy of Hartlib's letter to Mr. John Beale, copied by Crossley from original penes Mr. Thorpe.)
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Followed by printed text: A Collection of Epistles written by Dr. Worthington to Mr. Hartlib. Verso of title blank. Pp. 227-318 and an unnumbered leaf giving list of works published by Dr. Worthington and a list of those published after his death. Various references to these printed letters are attached by Crossley to the ms transcript of Hartlib's letters.

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'Miscellanies' 1704.

Lot 8670 in Reed's sale catalogue, 1807: Letters from Mr. Hartlib to Dr. Worthington, 8vo. copied at Emmanuel College, Sept. 1788, from Baker's MS. J.R.

Lot 3001 in the Crossley Sale Catalogue, June 1885, Sotheby, Wilkinson and Hodge: Hartlibb's Letters. Transcript of unpublished Letters from Hartlibb to Dr. Worthington, with his Answers, with Autograph Memoranda for a Life of Hartlibb, folio, vellum covers; from the collection of George Chalmers. (But can this be the Chetham copy?)

Size of leaf of Chetham ms: 19.8 x 12.5 cms.

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