for my Ransome,' he [John Donne] wrote bleakly, describing his recovery from fever to a friend, and adding an apologetic postscript: 'Because I loved it well, I make account that I dignifie the memorie of it, by mentioning of it to you.' The 'it' in this sombre letter was, as Stubbs points out, three-year-old Mary Donne.
from The Observer: The apostate poet
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