PRIOR, Matthew (1664-1721). Autograph letter signed ('Mat Prior') to [Edward] Southwell, Plantation Office, 10 June 1703, thanking him for his communications in verse and prose, 'the Poetry, I own to you, is admirable ... in the Prose ... there are faults in Stile which I hope nothing could have occasioned but the Charivari of Kettledrums, Trumpetts and Hazzas, and which I expect should be corrected as your thoughts grow more sedate', and admitting that he would not have drawn attention to these had there been news to send, but with the Court at Windsor and nobody in Town but William Pen[n] and Micaiah Perry, there was none, 2 pages, 4to, docketed.