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Posted By: GUEST,Rory
30-Dec-20 - 05:08 AM
Thread Name: Barbara Allen earliest version?
Subject: RE: Barbara Allen earliest version?
A letter by Mrs Knipp with "Barbary Allen" written by her, sent to Pepys, and in the posession of Pepys on Jan 5th 1666.
Diary of Samuel Pepys, January/February 1665/66
Jan 5th 1666 ... We had no time to talk of particulars, but leave it to another day, and I away to Cornhill to expect my Lord Bruncker's coming back again, and I staid at my stationer's house, and by and by comes my Lord, and did take me up and so to Greenwich, and after sitting with them a while at their house, home, thinking to get Mrs. Knipp, but could not, she being busy with company, but sent me a pleasant letter, writing herself "Barbary Allen." ...