Script

The elegant hand of the "Ephelia" autograph, being a draft-elegy on Sir Thomas Isham, preserved at Nottingham, is very similar, though not identical, to the script of her younger brother, George Villiers, second Duke of Buckingham. A photograph of Ephelia's "Isham" elegy is reproduced in my edition of 1992, 1993. A fold-out photo-facsimile of George Villiers's informal script, being a letter to his wife, Mary Fairfax, is in Burghclere's Villiers (facing p. 88). Photographs of Villiers's autograph verse, in his surviving commonplace book, are in John O'Neill's essay on Villiers, DLB 80:245-262.