ABSTRACT
The two letters that open the correspondence are the earliest surviving letters from Robert Boyle, written from Eton where his father, the first Earl of Cork, had sent Robert and his brother Francis (1623–69), in October 1635. The brothers remained there until 11 October 1638. Concerning Boyle’s schooldays see Boyle’s autobiographical An Account of Philaretus in Maddison, Life, pp. 2–56.
