### Information on mroper.e1

#### PPCEME information

> Author | Roper, Margaret, née More
> Birthdate | b. 1505, d. 1544 (http://faculty.msmc.edu/lindeman/mo3.html)
> Filename | mroper.e1
> Manuscript | Letter 203: Bodleian MS. Ballard 72, fol. 85v; British Mus. MS. Royal 17 D xiv, fol. 454; Letter 206: Bodleian Ms. Ballard 72, fol. 86v (alpha); Brit. Mus. Ms. Royal 17 D xiv, fol. 404r (beta); Letter 209: Bodleian MS. Ballard 72, fol. 98; British Mus. MS. Royal 17 D xiv, fol. 454v
> Date of composition | 1534
> Genre | LET PRIV
> Edition | Rogers, Elizabeth F. (ed.). 1947. The correspondence of Sir Thomas More. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
> Sample | 510.1-511.35 (= Helsinki 511.35) (203) (Helsinki 1), 514.1-530.32 (206) (Penn), 538.24-539.36 (= Helsinki 538.1-539.38) (209) (Helsinki 2)
> Remarks | Letter 206 partially supplements morelet.e1 on the strength of Hitchcock 1935:clxii (cited in Rogers 1947:514). Perhaps the most remarkable proof of this dramatic power of the Chelsea household is in the so-called letter of Margaret Roper to Lady Alington. This is a report of a dialogue in prison between More and Margaret. It is about the length of Plato's Crito, to which indeed, in many ways, it forms a striking parallel. Now when, after the death of More and Margaret, this letter was printed, More's own circle could not decide whether the real writer was More or his daughter. And the letter remains a puzzle. The speeches of More are absolute More; and the speeches of Margaret are absolute Margaret. And we have to leave it at that. (Source: Hitchcock, Elsie Vaughan (ed.). 1935 (for 1934). The lyfe of Sir Thomas Moore, knighte, written by William Roper, esquire, whiche maried Margreat, daughter of the sayed Thomas Moore; and now edited from thirteen manuscripts, with collations, etc. EETS OS 197. London: Oxford University Press. Author daughter of Sir Thomas More (morelet.e1, moreric.e1, morewol.e1) and wife of William Roper (roper.e1). The text edition numbers lines by individual letter (rather than by page), and the editors of the Helsinki corpus used a combination of page number plus this line number to identify their sample selections. Since this hybrid system leads to ambiguity on pages with several short letters, we count lines numbers by page. We give the Helsinki numbering in parentheses for completeness.

#### Helsinki Corpus information

> <Q E1 XX CORP MROPER>
> <N LET TO FATHER>
> <A ROPER MARGARET>
> <C E1>
> <O 1500-1570>
> <M X>
> <K X>
> <D ENGLISH>
> <V PROSE>
> <T LET PRIV>
> <G X>
> <F X>
> <W WRITTEN>
> <X FEMALE>
> <Y 20-40>
> <H HIGH>
> <U X>
> <E INT UP>
> <J INTERACTIVE>
> <I INFORMAL>
> <Z X>