A lot of insight into Buckingham, particularly his later life, can be gained in reading "Letters to John Bailey".
I've often wondered why the Buckingham family never sold or handed off his "papers" to some institution. Maybe they were thrown out upon his death, who knows.
DLH
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I was as virtuously given as a gentleman need to be; virtuous enough; swore little; diced not above seven times a week; went to a bawdy-house once in a quarter--of an hour; paid money that I borrowed, three of four times; lived well and in good compass: and now I live out of all order, out of all compass. Falstaff - Henry IV
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