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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