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Sidney, Sir Philip, (1554-1586), Knight, soldier, statesman and poet

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Surname: Sidney
Pretitle: Sir
Forenames: Philip
Gender: Male
Date: 1554-1586
Title: Knight
Biography: ODNB link for Sidney, Sir Philip (1554-1586) Knight Soldier Statesman and Poet
Name authority reference: GB/NNAF/P141175 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/P26156 )
Online related resources Bibliography of British and Irish History link for Sir Philip Sidney
Collections
Number Description Held by Reference Further information
1

1575-76: corresp

British Library, Manuscript Collections

Add MS 15914

2

1573-81: corresp (copies)

British Library, Manuscript Collections

RP125

3

misc corresp and papers

British Library, Manuscript Collections

Harleian MSS

4

letters (11) from Robert Dorsett

Oxford University: Christ Church Archives

See Paul Morgan, Oxford libraries outside the Bodleian 1980

5

1573-76: letters (65) from European diplomats and scholars

Yale University Libraries: Beinecke Library

NRA 18661 Osborn coll

6

papers and related material

Kent History and Library Centre

U1475; U1500

NRA 17989 Sidney

See HMC 77 De L'Isle and Dudley MSS I-III

7

life of by Sir Francis Drake

Shropshire Archives

295

NRA 19299 Shrewsbury L

8

1574-76: letters to Walsingham and papers

British Library, Manuscript Collections

Cotton MSS

9

corresp and literary MSS

See information in published source

See Index of English literary MSS vol 1 1450-1625

10

1573-81: (copy) letters from various correspondents

British Library, Manuscript Collections

RP 125

11

Tixall Psalter (psalms paraphrase with Mary, Countess of Pembroke)

Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections

See Annual Return 2007