John Donne and the Conway Papers: Patronage and Manuscript Circulation in the Early Seventeenth Century

'john Donne And The Conway Papers' Examines The Archive Of The Conway Family And Considers How The Archive Came To Contain A Concentration Of Manuscript Poetry By Donne, And What This Tells Us In Terms Of Seventeenth-century Politics, Patronage, And Culture. Introduction: John Donne Andthe Conway Papers; Part I The Conway Familyand The Conway Papers; 1. 'at Length I Fell In To Imagination': Sir John Conway; 2. 'an Honest Man, Who Knows More About The Sword Than The Pen': Edward, First Viscount Conway And Killultagh; 3. The Knight's Move: Conway And A Game At Chess; 4. Fide Et Amore: The First Viscount Conway's Legacies; 5. 'what Is A Gentleman But His Pleasure?' Edward, Second Viscount Conway, And Killultagh; 6. Booklets, Books, Ballads, And Birds: The Second Viscount Conway As Collector; 7. The Curious History Of The Conway Papers; 8. Conceptualizing The Conway Papers; Part Ii John Donne, Sir Henry Goodere, And Manuscript Circulation; 9. Donne's Verse Letters; 10. Sir Henry Goodere, Poet And Scribe; 11. Problematum Miscellaneorum: The Problems And Biathanatos, 1603-1610; 12. The Intelligence That Moves: Donne, Goodere, And Conway, 1610-1615; 13. Textual Transmission And Court Patronage In The 1620s; 14. Conflicts Of Interest: Donne, Goodere, Conway, And Seventeenth-century Patronage; Conclusion: Patronage And Manuscript Circulation; Appendix I: Conway And Goodere Family Trees; Appendix Ii: Literary Manuscripts In The Conway Papers; Works Cited; Index. Daniel Starza Smith. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 335-372) And Index.