AN UNPUBLISHED LETTER FROM ANDREW MARVELL TO WILLIAM PETTY.

The article focuses on an unpublished letter from poet and parliamentarian Andrew Marvell to philosopher, physician, civil servant, and political economist William Petty, now part of the first volume of the Bowood Papers at the British Library Additional Manuscript Collection. The author points out that the letter is significant because it speaks of an acquaintance between the two men who seems to be unremarked in studies of either.