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The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1899, consists of 100 books containing published or previously unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir Francis Drake, and covering voyages to the New World, to China and Japan, to Russia and to Africa and India. Volumes 66 and 67 of the series, edited by E. M Thompson and first published in 1883, contain the bulk of the diary of Richard Cocks (c.1565–1624), supplemented by a selection of letters. Cocks was the head of a trading post established in Japan by the British East India Company from its foundation in 1613 until 1622, when it went out of business. His diary describes Japanese society and culture in the early seventeenth century, as well as the activities of British merchants there

Introduction, by Alfred W. Pollard. Appendix: Accounts of the anti-alien disturbances of 1595, 1586 and 1593 from contemporary documents.--The handwritings of he manuscript, by W.W. Greg.--The handwriting of the three pages attributed to Shakespeare compared with his signatures, by Sir E. Maunde Thompson.--Bibliographical links between the three pages and the good quartos, by J. Dover Wilson. Appendix: The spellings of the three pages, with parallels from the quartos.--The expression of ideas, particularly political ideas, in the three pages and Shakespeare, by R.W. Chambers.--Ill May day: scenes from the play of Sir Thomas More, text edited by W.W. Greg.--Special transcript of the three pages, by W.W. Greg. ; Mode of access: Internet.