Index of Letters

For convenience of reference, we have numbered the letters in the volume consecutively, from 1 to 129.  This list gives each letter’s  number, its first few words, its addressee, and the page numbers on which it appears in the volume.  The list of addressees is not regularized or corrected,  but rather reports what is given in the text except that when the addressee is implied (as in “To your selfe”), the name of the addressee has been supplied in brackets.  For those letters for which no  addressee is either specified or implied,  the bracketed name has been supplied by the editors of the forthcoming Oxford edition of the letters.

Note:  in this index the first line of each letter is a hot link; left-clicking on it takes the user to the beginning of the letter in the file containing the complete text of the volume.

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Letter #	First Words	Addressee	Page #
1	I could make some guesse	Bridget White	1-2
2	I think the letters which I send to you	Mis. B. W.	3-4
3	This letter which I send enclosed hath	To the same [Bridget White]	4–5
4	I have but small comfort in this letter	Mrs. B. W.	5–6
5	Those things which God dissolves at	Lady Kingsmel	7–10
6	I make account that this writing of letters	T. Lucey	11-19
7	I make accompt that this book hath	Edward Herbert	20-21
8	I had need do somewhat towards you	Robert Carre	21-22
9	Amongst many other dignities which	Countesse of Bedford	22-24
10	Of my ability to doe your Ladiship	Countess of Montgomery	24-26
11	If a whole year be but Annus ab Annulo	Sir H. R.	26-31
12	This letter hath more merit, then one	Sir H. G.	31-37
13	I Am sorry, if your care of me have made	George Garet	37-28
14	I have not received that Letter, which by	George Garet	38-39
15	Though there be much merit, in the	Martha Garet	40-41
16	It is an ease to your friends abroad, that	Thomas Roe	41-42
17	I am not weary of writing; it is the	H. Goodere	42-48
18	Every Tuesday I make account that I turn	H. Goodere	48-54
19	If this which I send you inclosed give me	H. Goodere	54-57
20	It is in our State ever held for a good sign	To the same [H. Goodere]	58-60
21	It should be no interruption to your	Sir H.G.	61-64
22	Though my friendship be good for	[Goodere]	65-66
23	I do not remember that ever I have seen a	Countesse of Bedford	67-68
24	Because things be conserved by the same	H. Goodere	68-69
25	I hope you are now welcome to London	Sir H.G.	70-73
26	I writ to you once this week before; yet	Sir G. F.	73-78
27	Because I am in a place and season where	Sir H.G.	78-80
28	You may remember that long since	H. Goodere	81-82
29	You husband my time thriftily, when	Sir H.G.	82-85
30	This Tuesday morning, which hath	Sir H.G.	85-88
31	If this Letter find you in a progresse, or	To your selfe [Goodere]	89–93
32	I am near the execution of that purpose	Lord G. H.	93–96
33	Nature hath made all bodies alike, by	Sir H.G.	96–99
34	At some later reading, I was more	Henry Goodere	100–105
35	If you were here, you would not think	Sir G. M.	105–108
36	I send not my Letters as tribute, nor	Sir H.G.	109–112
37	Sir Germander Pool, your noble friend and	To your selfe [Goodere]	112–113
38	In the History or style of friendship	Sir H.G.	114–116
39	Because evennesse conduces as much to	Henry Goodere	116–117
40	I would not omit this, not Commodity	Sir I. H.	118–119
41	That which is at first but a visitation	H. Wootton	120–127
42	If I would go out of my way for excuses	H. Goodere	127–134
43	All our moralities are but our	H. Wotton	134–137
44	I write to you our of my poor	A.V. Merced	137–139
45	When I saw your good Countesse	H. Wootton	140–143
46	This 14 of November last I received	Sir H.G.	143–146
47	Though you escape my lifting up of	H. Goodere	146–147
48	Your Son left here a Letter for me	H. G.	148–150
49	I love to give you advantages upon me	Sir H.G.	150–151
50	I gave no answer to the Letter I received	Sir R. D.	151–153
51	I have but one excuse for not sending	H. Goodere	154–159
52	To you that are not easily scandalized	Sir H.G.	160–164
53	This evening which is 5 October, I	Sir T.H.	165–167
54	I receive this 14 your Letter of the 10	Sir H.G.	167–171
55	After I have told you, that the Lady	Sir H.G.	171–174
56	It is true that M. Gherard told you, I had	H. Goodere	174–176
57	At your conveniency, I pray send my	Sir H.G.	176–177
58	I heard not from you this week	Sir H.G.	178–179
59	I receive this heare that I begin this	G.K.	179–181
60	Between the time of making up my	Sir G. B.	182[183]–184
61	I would have intermitted this week	Sir G. P.	184–186
62	I have scarce had at any time any thing so	T. Lucy	187–190
63	Since I received a Letter by your sonne	Sir H.G.	191–192[190]
64	The Messenger who brought me	Sir H.G.	192[190]–194
65	I writ to you yesterday taking the	Sir H.G.	194–198
66	Your Letter comes to me, at Grace after	Tho. Lucy	199–200
67	It is one of my blinde Meditations to	Sir G. B.	201
68	Agreeably to my fortune, and thoughts	H. Goodere	202–203
69	I cannot obey you, if you go to morrow	Sir H.G.	203–204
70	I have bespoke you a New-years-gift, that	Sir T. R.	204
71	I speak to you before God, I am so much	Henry Goodere	205
72	The little businesse which you left in	G.H.	206–207
73	I send you here a Translation; but it is	To your self [Goodere]	207–208
74	Because in your last Letter, I have an	Tho. Lucy	208–210
75	This is a second Letter: the enclosed	Sir H.G.	211–212
76	I live so farre removed, that even the ill	Sir H.G.	212–213
77	I cannot yet serve you with those books	Sir H.G.	213–217
78	I had destined all this Tuesday, for the	Sir H.G.	217–221
79	This first of Aprill I received yours of	Thomas Lucy	222–225
80	As you are a great part of my businesse	Henry Goodere	225–226
81	This 25 I have your letter of 21, which	Sir H.G.	226–227
82	I can scarce doe any more this week then	F. H.	228
83	I have the honour of your Letter, which	Sir H.G.	229–232
84	Our blessed Saviour, who abounds in	Henry Goodere	233–237
85	Neither your Letters, nor silence, needs	G. G.	237–239
86	I should not only send you an account by	G. G.	240–241
87	This advantage you, and my other	[Garet]	241–244
88	I am not come out of England, if I	Lady G.	244–245
89	The first of this moneth I received a	To your selfe [Garet]	246–248
90	Though I have left my bed, I have not	Robert Karre	249–250
91	Age becomes nothing better then	To your selfe [Garet]	251–253
92	It is one ill Affection of a desperate	[Goodere]	253–257
93	I cannot chuse but make it a presage that	George Gerrard	258–259
94	This is the fourth of this moneth, and	George Gerrard	259–261
95	All your other Letters, which came	To your selfe [Garet]	262–263
96	I would I were so good an Alchimist to	George Garrat	264–265
97	The dignity, and the good fortune due	To your fair sister [M. Garet]	266–267
98	Because to remain in this sort guilty in	Henry Goodere	267–269
99	I had rather like the first best; not onely	Robert Karre	270–271
100	I have often sinned towards you, with a	Robert Karre	271–272
101	Perchance others may have told you	Robert Karre	273–274
102	I make account that it is a day of great	Robert Karre	274–275
103	If I would calumniate, I could say no	Robert Karre	276–277
104	The same houre that I received the	Robert Karre	278
105	This is but a Postscript to the last	Robert Karre	279
106	Your letter was the more welcome to	George Gherard	280–281
107	I know not which of us wonne it by the	George Garrard	281–283
108	I thank you for expressing your love to	George Garrard	283–284
109	I do not make account that I am come to	George Gherard	285
110	When we thinke of a friend,we	George Garret	286–287
111	I am come to that tendernesse of	Robert Karre	288–289
112	After I was grown to be your	Viscount of Rochester	290–291
113	Lest you should thinke your selfe too	Robert Karre	292–293
114	I make shift to think that I promised you	To your selfe [Karre]	294–295
115	I have always your leave to use my	Robert Karre	295–296
116	I sought you yesterday with a purpose	Robert Karre	297–299
117	I amend to no purpose, nor have any	Robert Karre	299–300
118	When I was almost at Court, I met	Robert Karre	301
119	I was loth to bee the onely man who	Robert Karre	302
120	Your mans haste gives me the	Robert Karre	303
121	If I shall never be able to do you any reall	To your selfe [Karre]	304
122	A few hours after I had the honour of	Robert Karre	305–306
123	I humbly thanke you, for this	Robert Karre	306–307
124	I was this morning at your door	Robert Karre	307–310
125	If I should refuse the liberty which you	Robert Karre	311
126	I pursued my ambition of having the	Robert Karre	312–313
127	This morning I have received a	Robert Karre	313–314
128	I have obeyed the forms of our Church	Robert Karre	315–316
129	But that it is sweetned by your	Mris Cokain	316–318