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Robert Persons's Precarious Correspondence
2014
Journal of Jesuit Studies
The Jesuit mission to England during the reign of Elizabeth depended a great deal on written correspondence with Rome and other missionaries "in the field." As the superior of the mission, Robert Persons wrote frequently and sometimes voluminously to his colleagues and associates, as well as to interested lay people and political figures. This article considers the effect of the urgency and the unpredictability of his correspondence. He was often on the run, so letters could go astray, be
doi:10.1163/22141332-00104012
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