Excerpt from Letter-Book of Gabriel Harvey: A. D. 1573 1580 On turning back to page 58, we find Harvey's rough drafts of a correspondence he held with Edmund Spenser in 1579. Whether these letters ever really passed between the friends, or whether they are the mere creatures of Harvey's imagination, it is now quite impossible to decide. It is certain they have never been printed before in their entirety, although here and there pieces of them are to be found among Harvey's published works. The first letter is from Harvey, written at Cambridge on the tenth day or an um. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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