Edmund Spenser, Selected Letters and Other Papers provides the first published text of the diplomatic and personal papers written, copied, and handled by the poet Edmund Spenser during his years of secretarial service and colonial planting in Ireland, 1580-1589. Although a rich resource for the study of Spenser's poetry and prose, these manuscript texts have rarely been studied. Through its generous introduction, illustrations, and copious notes andappendices, this edition provides unique and stimulating access to these indispensable witnesses from the historical record, and will help to stimulate new work in Spenser studies. These texts will also provide animportant source for political and military historians interested in early modern Ireland.