Countess of Pembroke's letter—Drayton's Poems—A Flemish Account—Bishop Burnet

Your correspondent, at p. 28., asks whether there is any contemporary copy of the celebrated letter, said to have been written by Anne, Countess of Pembroke, to Sir Joseph Williamson? I would refer him to Mr. Hartley Coleridge's *Lives of Distinguished Northerns*, 1833, p. 290. His arguments for considering the letter *spurious*, if not conclusive, are very forcible, but they are too copious for this paper. Your readers, who may not be conversant with that undeservedly neglected volume, will confess their obligation, when they have consulted its pages, in having been directed to so valuable an…