A volume of 61 small handwritten letters secretly addressed to Sir William Hopkins

Item author: King Charles I

Item date: 1648

Grant Value: 200

Item cost pre-decimal: 400

Item date acquired: 1948

Item institution: Royal Library, Windsor Castle

Town/City: Windsor

County: Berkshire

This volume comprises about half of all the letters written by Charles I from his prison on the Isle of Wight, mostly concerning his attempts to escape; the rest are in the BL: Egerton MSS 1533 and 1788

Item Provenance

First published 1711, then lost sight of until they rerappeared as Lot 431 Sothebys sale of books from Lockinge House Wantage