My dear Arthur Authorities for the wars of the Roses are very scarce and bad. I believe Sharon Turner is the modern who has done them up best, and his notes guide to the places where he gets his authorities. I believe the best, next to the Paston letters are Polydore Vergil, and a certain Abbot /(I think) Welthamstead of St Albans who was a great Lancastrian till Queen Margaret let her wild Borderers ... continue reading

My dear Anne It is enough to frighten one to see all one’s words taken so seriously, not that I did not really mean them, but perhaps I spoke more freely from not thinking you would attach so much weight to what so young and so flyaway a person might say. However it is quite right to feel that words have weight. I think I must begin from henceforth to assure you that you ... continue reading