Chapter 11 BACON'S SECOND VISIT TO THE CONTINENT AND AFTER.

In the "Reliqui? Bodleian?," published in 1703, is a letter written without date by Thomas Bodley to Francis Bacon. This letter does not appear to have been known to Mallett, Montague, Dixon, Spedding, or any of Bacon's biographers. It had been lost sight of until the writer noticed it and reproduced it in Baconiana. This is the letter:-

My Dear