Thompson’s annotation identifying Thelgon as Fletcher’s father

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Photograph of an annotated page of *The Purple Island* (1633)
William Thompson’s annotation in his copy of The Purple Island (1633). It reads, “The Author’s Father is shadow’d under Thelgon, Dr. Gyles Fletcher.” British Library, 239.i.23.(3.), sig. A1r.

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Annotation on the edge of the first page of the Piscatorie Eclogues, identifying the character Thelgon as Giles Fletcher the Elder.

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  • type
    Image
  • created on
  • file format
    jpg
  • file size
    957 kB
  • container title
    Phineas Fletcher, The Purple Island, or the Isle of Man: Together with Piscatorie Eclogs and other Poeticall Miscellanies (Cambridge: Printers to the University of Cambridge, 1633)
  • copyright status
    Public Domain
  • creator
    William Thompson
  • credit
    Photograph by Whitney Trettien.
  • original publisher
    University of Cambridge Press
  • original publisher place
    Cambridge
  • rights holder
    Whitney Trettien
  • rights territory
    Worldwide