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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, A book of American explorers, chapter 3 (search)
discourses, drawn and written by himself, which are in the custody of the worshipful master William Worthington, one of her Majesty's Pensioners, who—because so worthy monuments should not be buried in perpetual oblivion, —is very willing to suffer them to be overseen and published in as good order as may be, to the encouragement and benefit of our countrymen. But these papers never were printed. III.—Verrazzano's letter to the King. [this letter is said to have been written at Dieppe, July 8, 1524, being addressed to King Francis I. Of France. this narrative, if authentic, is the earliest original account of the Atlantic coast of the United States. Its authenticity has been doubted; and Mr. Bancroft, in the new edition of his History, does not refer to it at all. But, as the question is still unsettled, the letter is included here.] I wrote not to your Majesty (most Christian king), since the time we suffered the tempest in the north parts, of the success of the f<