Roome for a Little prose, lyke a Lenvoy ; There were certaine Bookes
Maddame [1] that Sir Thomas Beamont mencioned , and (as hee told mee)
ffor your Ladiship, which shall bee very shortely sent downe , and
some others to attend them. I am sure yow will doe my doe my service to
my Lord : so I commytt yow to your Closett. [2] [maddame] All at your service . /
John Fletcher [3]

To the ^ Excelent [4] and
Best Lady the Countess
of Huntington [5]

Notes
Fletcher is yet another prolific dramatist whose extant holograph material is pitifully small, in this case 13 words comprising the insertion maddame (1.5), the signature and the address. The rest of the letter, mainly in verse is in the hand of an unknown scribe. There is little doubt, however, that Fletcher is the author. As F. Bickley, who discovered the letter, points out (HMC [The Historical Manuscripts Commission], Hastings MSS, ii, 1930, 59), 'the easy flow of the verse and the reference to a member of the Beaumont family both point to this conclusion'. Bickley dates the letter c. 1620, though it could be considerably earlier or a little later. A facs[imile] of the whole letter is given in Greg, XCIII.

Characteristics
The scribe writes a small, neat secretary typical of the period. There are the calligraphic features of introductory strokes, the simple oblique spur on a, indentation on b and l, a certain pointedness, as on minims, suggestive of the engrossing secretary, a very elegant twin-stemmed r and the most formal types of e, the Greek and the two-stroke t form (1.1 were). Two graphs are consistently italic: f and long s which are of the very cursive long figure 8 variety. Two words, both connected with proper names or modes of address, are also in italic (1.2, Maddame, Beamont), though inconsistently, Thomas and two modes of address are left in secretary. The scribe seems to copying from Fletcher's rough draft and has made and corrected two minor errors while doing so (vide nn. 1.2). The punctuation, also probably copied from Fletcher's, is very full and fairly careful, and comprises the period, comma, colon, semicolon, brackets and the period cum virgule for ending the letter. It is possible, as Greg suggests (loc.cit.), that some marks were added by a later hand, e.g. the thick periods in ll. 4,5.
Abbreviation consists entirely of superior letters: Sr (Sir), wch (which), yor (your) and otiose raising of w in yow.

Fletcher's hand is in a fairly rapid italic, so carelessly written that there are 3 errors in the 13 words (nn. 4, 5, 6), one of them, incredibly, in the signature, when Fletcher decides at the last moment to use a capital rather than minuscule f. He has also inserted a caret [^] but has forgotten to interlineate anything (presumably he intended to write most). There is no doubt that his hand is not the same as that in the body of the text: a comparison of Maddame, 1.2, with the interlineated maddame shows a clear difference in the formation of each italic graph.