49/66 22.] * * * * * More than two years had elapsed since Milton's last letters to Oldenburg and young Ranelagh (ante pp. They were then at Saumur in France, where they remained till March 1658; but since that time they had been travelling about, and from May 1659, if not earlier, they had been boarding in Paris. There are glimpses of them in letters from Oldenburg to Robert Boyle, and also in letters of Hartlib to Boyle, in which he quotes passages from letters he has received both from Oldenburg and from young Ranelagh. |