Orange and Princess Mary. Osborne's close friendship with Mary lasted until the Queen's death in 1694. Osborne (Lady Temple) had nine children, all but two of whom died in infancy. A daughter, Diana, succumbed to smallpox at age fourteen, and a son, John, ended his life in his twenties, but not before he had married and fathered two children, providing Sir William and Lady Temple with two granddaughters: Elizabeth and Dorothy Temple. Lady Temple died at Moor Park, Surrey, and is buried in the west aisle of Westminster Abbey, along with her husband Sir William Temple, daughter Diana Temple and Temple's sister, Martha, Lady Giffard, whose adult life was spent as a member of the Osborne/Temple household. Publication history Dorothy Osborne's letters have been published numerous times since their initial appearance in print in 1888. The most recent edition is edited by Kenneth Parker: Dorothy Osborne: Letters to Sir William Temple, 1652–54: Observations on Love, Literature, Politics and Religion (Ashgate, 2002), although that edition is not without problems for specialised users, namely with regards to the correct order of some of the letters, many of which were undated and are difficult to place sequentially. The text of editor Sir Edward Parry's 1888 edition is available online at . Parry's edition is particularly valuable for its useful commentary, although unfortunately he did not retain the original orthography for his transcription, and the "modern English" in some cases lessens the considerable charm of Osborne's prose. G. C. Moore Smith's (1928) and Parker's critical editions retain Osborne's spelling and punctuation. Critical appreciations F. L. Lucas, "The Perfect Letter-Writer", essay in his Studies French and English (London, 1934, pp. 151–174 ; repr. 1951, 1969). Originally "A Seventeenth-Century Courtship : The Love Letters of Dorothy Osborne,” Listener, 22 Jan 1930 – text of a wireless talk, reprinted in Life and Letters, Vol. 5 No. 26, July 1930, and in Modern Short Biographies, ed. M. Balch (Harcourt Brace, N. Y., 1935). Lord David Cecil, Two Quiet Lives: Dorothy Osborne and Thomas Gray (London, 1948) References External links Letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple, 1652–54 (1888), from Internet Archive. "The True Love" episode of What'sHerName Podcast on Dorothy Osborne with guest Professor Bernard Capp of the British Academy. English letter writers Women letter writers 1627 births 1695 deaths 17th-century English women Wives of baronets