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From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Suppl.: Handwritten letter by Linda B. Salamon to William Speed Hill (2 p.). - A pristine copy. - From the text: Sackville: �Seeing God did so bless you, to make you the scholar of the best master, and also the schoolmaster of the best scholar, that ever were in our time; surely, you should please God, benefit your country, and honest your own name, if you would take the pains to impart to others what you learned of such a master, and how ye taught such a scholar.� Ascham: �Seeing at my death I am not like to leave [my poor children] any great store of living, therefore in my lifetime I thought good to bequeath unto them, in this litjtle book, as in my will and testament, the right way to good learning; which, if they follow, with the fear of God, they shall very well come to sufficiency of living.� The preface to The Scholemaster of Roger Ascham purports to show the genesis of the work: Sir Richard Sackville heard Ascham expound his views on corporal punishment during dinner at court and later pressed him for detailed opinions, in conversation and then in print, by his support thus becoming onlie begetter of the book. As Ascham recalls the occasion, however, much more than a simple treatise is required. He is to relay all that he has learned from John Cheke and taught to Queen Elizabeth, in short to record his intellectual autobiography.