Papers of the Winthrop Family, Volume 4
1638-08-08
These are not only to salute you and your good gentlwoman, cum caeteris; but earnestly to intreat you to let mee haue a word from you about Mrs. Beggerly's, or rather Mr. Skeltons house,2 which is now falling to the ground, if some thing bee not done: we haue referd it, and would earnestly intreate you for a writing (they say) you haue about it, which you promised her, and shee sayes will lende to the busines for light: and thus wayting for that writing, and wishing you the fullnes of all good, as to myne owne soule, I rest Yours euer and euer
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, VII. 201–202. Due to the loss of the original manuscript, it is impossible to clear up the uncertainty about the date of this letter which arises from the fact that in the earlier printed version the date as given by Peter himself is said to have been August 8, while that of Winthrop's endorsement is given as December 8.
See New England Historical and Genealogical Register, XXXV. 318–320.