Letter to a Friend

The recipient of this letter written by Lady Jane Grey is not known for certain. The majority of the authors listed below state that it was to a Dr Harding, former Chaplain at Bradgate Park, who returned to the catholic faith on the succession of Mary Tudor to the throne. Nicolas and Howard state that this letter cannot have been to Dr Harding as it was written much earlier, before Dr Harding's conversion.

A full copy of this letter can be found in the following:

Literary Remains of Lady Jane Grey: With a Memoir of Her Life by Nicholas H Nicolas

Documents of Lady Jane Grey: Nine Days Queen of England 1553 by James D Taylor Jr

Extracts can be found in the following:

Lady Jane Grey by Hester W Chapman

The Nine Days' Queen: Lady Jane Grey and Her Times by Richard Davey

Silent But For The Word: Tudor Women as Patrons, Translators, and Writers of Religious Works edited by Margaret Patterson Hannay

Lady Jane Grey and Her Times by George Howard

The Nine Days Queen: A Portrait of Lady Jane Grey by Mary Luke

Lady Jane Grey: Nine Days Queen by Alison Plowden

Sovereign Ladies: The Six Reigning Queens of England by Maureen Waller

Children of England: The Heirs of King Henry VIII by Alison Weir

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