Spenser's letter to Sir Walter Raleigh explaining The Faerie Queene was:
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Correct answer: B. appended to the 1590 edition
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The 'Letter of the Authors' (dated 23 January 1589) was printed at the end of the 1590 edition (Books I–III) and dropped from the 1596 edition.
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