Anne Bradstreet

Copy by Simon Bradstreet, untitled, headed with the date May. 13. 1657.

Pages 1-41 and [97-8] are her autograph copies largely of prose meditations written at the request of her second son, the Rev. Simon Bradstreet (1640-83), to whom she dedicated them, 20 March 1664, and one poem by her at the end dated 31 August 1669. Pages 43-66 comprise transcripts (A true Copy) by Simon Bradstreet of his mother's (now lost) manuscript book To my dear children, including diary entries for 8 July 1656 to 18 July 1666, made by him after her death in 1672. Pages 66-7 contain a poem by her copied by him from a loose paper. Pages 69-72 were then occupied later by Latin translations of some of Anne Bradstreet's prose in the volume made in his younger days by her great-grandson Simon Bradstreet (d.1771).

This MS is the Andover MS. Purchased in 1954 by Buchanan Charles from the Seven Gables Bookstore, New York. Donated by him to the Stevens Memorial Library, Andover, Massachusetts, and since 1972 kept on deposit at Harvard. Inside the front cover are earlier inscriptions Harrys His Book and Sam^l. Bradstreet of the 7^th Generation from the author 1849.

Edited from this MS by all editors.

Copy by Sarah Bradstreet, headed with the date May 13. 1657.

Entirely in the hand of her daughter Sarah Hubbard (née Bradstreet) and signed by her inside the front cover Sarah Bradstreet.

Donated in 1934 by The Manning Association.

Autograph, untitled, dated at the end Aug. 31 69, on a tipped-in leaf.

Pages 1-41 and [97-8] are her autograph copies largely of prose meditations written at the request of her second son, the Rev. Simon Bradstreet (1640-83), to whom she dedicated them, 20 March 1664, and one poem by her at the end dated 31 August 1669. Pages 43-66 comprise transcripts (A true Copy) by Simon Bradstreet of his mother's (now lost) manuscript book To my dear children, including diary entries for 8 July 1656 to 18 July 1666, made by him after her death in 1672. Pages 66-7 contain a poem by her copied by him from a loose paper. Pages 69-72 were then occupied later by Latin translations of some of Anne Bradstreet's prose in the volume made in his younger days by her great-grandson Simon Bradstreet (d.1771).

This MS is the Andover MS. Purchased in 1954 by Buchanan Charles from the Seven Gables Bookstore, New York. Donated by him to the Stevens Memorial Library, Andover, Massachusetts, and since 1972 kept on deposit at Harvard. Inside the front cover are earlier inscriptions Harrys His Book and Sam^l. Bradstreet of the 7^th Generation from the author 1849.

Edited from this MS by all editors. Facsimile of the last page in P.J. Croft, Autograph Poetry in the English Language, 2 vols (London, 1973), I, No. 48.

Copy by Sarah Bradstreet, headed A Pilgrim.

Entirely in the hand of her daughter Sarah Hubbard (née Bradstreet) and signed by her inside the front cover Sarah Bradstreet.

Donated in 1934 by The Manning Association.

Copy by Simon Bradstreet, untitled, under a general heading Here follow severall occasionall meditations. &c.

Pages 1-41 and [97-8] are her autograph copies largely of prose meditations written at the request of her second son, the Rev. Simon Bradstreet (1640-83), to whom she dedicated them, 20 March 1664, and one poem by her at the end dated 31 August 1669. Pages 43-66 comprise transcripts (A true Copy) by Simon Bradstreet of his mother's (now lost) manuscript book To my dear children, including diary entries for 8 July 1656 to 18 July 1666, made by him after her death in 1672. Pages 66-7 contain a poem by her copied by him from a loose paper. Pages 69-72 were then occupied later by Latin translations of some of Anne Bradstreet's prose in the volume made in his younger days by her great-grandson Simon Bradstreet (d.1771).

This MS is the Andover MS. Purchased in 1954 by Buchanan Charles from the Seven Gables Bookstore, New York. Donated by him to the Stevens Memorial Library, Andover, Massachusetts, and since 1972 kept on deposit at Harvard. Inside the front cover are earlier inscriptions Harrys His Book and Sam^l. Bradstreet of the 7^th Generation from the author 1849.

Edited from this MS by all editors.

Copy by Sarah Bradstreet, under a general heading Here follows severall occasionall Meditations.

Entirely in the hand of her daughter Sarah Hubbard (née Bradstreet) and signed by her inside the front cover Sarah Bradstreet.

Donated in 1934 by The Manning Association.

Copy by Simon Bradstreet.

Pages 1-41 and [97-8] are her autograph copies largely of prose meditations written at the request of her second son, the Rev. Simon Bradstreet (1640-83), to whom she dedicated them, 20 March 1664, and one poem by her at the end dated 31 August 1669. Pages 43-66 comprise transcripts (A true Copy) by Simon Bradstreet of his mother's (now lost) manuscript book To my dear children, including diary entries for 8 July 1656 to 18 July 1666, made by him after her death in 1672. Pages 66-7 contain a poem by her copied by him from a loose paper. Pages 69-72 were then occupied later by Latin translations of some of Anne Bradstreet's prose in the volume made in his younger days by her great-grandson Simon Bradstreet (d.1771).

This MS is the Andover MS. Purchased in 1954 by Buchanan Charles from the Seven Gables Bookstore, New York. Donated by him to the Stevens Memorial Library, Andover, Massachusetts, and since 1972 kept on deposit at Harvard. Inside the front cover are earlier inscriptions Harrys His Book and Sam^l. Bradstreet of the 7^th Generation from the author 1849.

Edited from this MS by all editors.

Copy by Sarah Bradstreet.

Entirely in the hand of her daughter Sarah Hubbard (née Bradstreet) and signed by her inside the front cover Sarah Bradstreet.

Donated in 1934 by The Manning Association.

Copy by Simon Bradstreet.

Pages 1-41 and [97-8] are her autograph copies largely of prose meditations written at the request of her second son, the Rev. Simon Bradstreet (1640-83), to whom she dedicated them, 20 March 1664, and one poem by her at the end dated 31 August 1669. Pages 43-66 comprise transcripts (A true Copy) by Simon Bradstreet of his mother's (now lost) manuscript book To my dear children, including diary entries for 8 July 1656 to 18 July 1666, made by him after her death in 1672. Pages 66-7 contain a poem by her copied by him from a loose paper. Pages 69-72 were then occupied later by Latin translations of some of Anne Bradstreet's prose in the volume made in his younger days by her great-grandson Simon Bradstreet (d.1771).

This MS is the Andover MS. Purchased in 1954 by Buchanan Charles from the Seven Gables Bookstore, New York. Donated by him to the Stevens Memorial Library, Andover, Massachusetts, and since 1972 kept on deposit at Harvard. Inside the front cover are earlier inscriptions Harrys His Book and Sam^l. Bradstreet of the 7^th Generation from the author 1849.

Edited from this MS by all editors.

Copy by Sarah Bradstreet.

Entirely in the hand of her daughter Sarah Hubbard (née Bradstreet) and signed by her inside the front cover Sarah Bradstreet.

Donated in 1934 by The Manning Association.

Copy by Simon Bradstreet.

Pages 1-41 and [97-8] are her autograph copies largely of prose meditations written at the request of her second son, the Rev. Simon Bradstreet (1640-83), to whom she dedicated them, 20 March 1664, and one poem by her at the end dated 31 August 1669. Pages 43-66 comprise transcripts (A true Copy) by Simon Bradstreet of his mother's (now lost) manuscript book To my dear children, including diary entries for 8 July 1656 to 18 July 1666, made by him after her death in 1672. Pages 66-7 contain a poem by her copied by him from a loose paper. Pages 69-72 were then occupied later by Latin translations of some of Anne Bradstreet's prose in the volume made in his younger days by her great-grandson Simon Bradstreet (d.1771).

This MS is the Andover MS. Purchased in 1954 by Buchanan Charles from the Seven Gables Bookstore, New York. Donated by him to the Stevens Memorial Library, Andover, Massachusetts, and since 1972 kept on deposit at Harvard. Inside the front cover are earlier inscriptions Harrys His Book and Sam^l. Bradstreet of the 7^th Generation from the author 1849.

Edited from this MS by all editors.

Copy by Sarah Bradstreet.

Entirely in the hand of her daughter Sarah Hubbard (née Bradstreet) and signed by her inside the front cover Sarah Bradstreet.

Donated in 1934 by The Manning Association.

Copy by Simon Bradstreet.

Pages 1-41 and [97-8] are her autograph copies largely of prose meditations written at the request of her second son, the Rev. Simon Bradstreet (1640-83), to whom she dedicated them, 20 March 1664, and one poem by her at the end dated 31 August 1669. Pages 43-66 comprise transcripts (A true Copy) by Simon Bradstreet of his mother's (now lost) manuscript book To my dear children, including diary entries for 8 July 1656 to 18 July 1666, made by him after her death in 1672. Pages 66-7 contain a poem by her copied by him from a loose paper. Pages 69-72 were then occupied later by Latin translations of some of Anne Bradstreet's prose in the volume made in his younger days by her great-grandson Simon Bradstreet (d.1771).

This MS is the Andover MS. Purchased in 1954 by Buchanan Charles from the Seven Gables Bookstore, New York. Donated by him to the Stevens Memorial Library, Andover, Massachusetts, and since 1972 kept on deposit at Harvard. Inside the front cover are earlier inscriptions Harrys His Book and Sam^l. Bradstreet of the 7^th Generation from the author 1849.

Edited from this MS by all editors.

Copy by Sarah Bradstreet.

Entirely in the hand of her daughter Sarah Hubbard (née Bradstreet) and signed by her inside the front cover Sarah Bradstreet.

Donated in 1934 by The Manning Association.

Copy by Simon Bradstreet.

Pages 1-41 and [97-8] are her autograph copies largely of prose meditations written at the request of her second son, the Rev. Simon Bradstreet (1640-83), to whom she dedicated them, 20 March 1664, and one poem by her at the end dated 31 August 1669. Pages 43-66 comprise transcripts (A true Copy) by Simon Bradstreet of his mother's (now lost) manuscript book To my dear children, including diary entries for 8 July 1656 to 18 July 1666, made by him after her death in 1672. Pages 66-7 contain a poem by her copied by him from a loose paper. Pages 69-72 were then occupied later by Latin translations of some of Anne Bradstreet's prose in the volume made in his younger days by her great-grandson Simon Bradstreet (d.1771).

This MS is the Andover MS. Purchased in 1954 by Buchanan Charles from the Seven Gables Bookstore, New York. Donated by him to the Stevens Memorial Library, Andover, Massachusetts, and since 1972 kept on deposit at Harvard. Inside the front cover are earlier inscriptions Harrys His Book and Sam^l. Bradstreet of the 7^th Generation from the author 1849.

Edited from this MS by all editors.

Copy by Sarah Bradstreet.

Entirely in the hand of her daughter Sarah Hubbard (née Bradstreet) and signed by her inside the front cover Sarah Bradstreet.

Donated in 1934 by The Manning Association.

Copy by Simon Bradstreet.

Pages 1-41 and [97-8] are her autograph copies largely of prose meditations written at the request of her second son, the Rev. Simon Bradstreet (1640-83), to whom she dedicated them, 20 March 1664, and one poem by her at the end dated 31 August 1669. Pages 43-66 comprise transcripts (A true Copy) by Simon Bradstreet of his mother's (now lost) manuscript book To my dear children, including diary entries for 8 July 1656 to 18 July 1666, made by him after her death in 1672. Pages 66-7 contain a poem by her copied by him from a loose paper. Pages 69-72 were then occupied later by Latin translations of some of Anne Bradstreet's prose in the volume made in his younger days by her great-grandson Simon Bradstreet (d.1771).

This MS is the Andover MS. Purchased in 1954 by Buchanan Charles from the Seven Gables Bookstore, New York. Donated by him to the Stevens Memorial Library, Andover, Massachusetts, and since 1972 kept on deposit at Harvard. Inside the front cover are earlier inscriptions Harrys His Book and Sam^l. Bradstreet of the 7^th Generation from the author 1849.

Edited from this MS by all editors.

Copy by Sarah Bradstreet.

Entirely in the hand of her daughter Sarah Hubbard (née Bradstreet) and signed by her inside the front cover Sarah Bradstreet.

Donated in 1934 by The Manning Association.

Copy by Simon Bradstreet.

Pages 1-41 and [97-8] are her autograph copies largely of prose meditations written at the request of her second son, the Rev. Simon Bradstreet (1640-83), to whom she dedicated them, 20 March 1664, and one poem by her at the end dated 31 August 1669. Pages 43-66 comprise transcripts (A true Copy) by Simon Bradstreet of his mother's (now lost) manuscript book To my dear children, including diary entries for 8 July 1656 to 18 July 1666, made by him after her death in 1672. Pages 66-7 contain a poem by her copied by him from a loose paper. Pages 69-72 were then occupied later by Latin translations of some of Anne Bradstreet's prose in the volume made in his younger days by her great-grandson Simon Bradstreet (d.1771).

This MS is the Andover MS. Purchased in 1954 by Buchanan Charles from the Seven Gables Bookstore, New York. Donated by him to the Stevens Memorial Library, Andover, Massachusetts, and since 1972 kept on deposit at Harvard. Inside the front cover are earlier inscriptions Harrys His Book and Sam^l. Bradstreet of the 7^th Generation from the author 1849.

Edited from this MS by all editors.

Copy by Sarah Bradstreet.

Entirely in the hand of her daughter Sarah Hubbard (née Bradstreet) and signed by her inside the front cover Sarah Bradstreet.

Donated in 1934 by The Manning Association.

Copy by Simon Bradstreet, subscribed This was the last Thing written in that Book by my dear and hon'd Mother.

Pages 1-41 and [97-8] are her autograph copies largely of prose meditations written at the request of her second son, the Rev. Simon Bradstreet (1640-83), to whom she dedicated them, 20 March 1664, and one poem by her at the end dated 31 August 1669. Pages 43-66 comprise transcripts (A true Copy) by Simon Bradstreet of his mother's (now lost) manuscript book To my dear children, including diary entries for 8 July 1656 to 18 July 1666, made by him after her death in 1672. Pages 66-7 contain a poem by her copied by him from a loose paper. Pages 69-72 were then occupied later by Latin translations of some of Anne Bradstreet's prose in the volume made in his younger days by her great-grandson Simon Bradstreet (d.1771).

This MS is the Andover MS. Purchased in 1954 by Buchanan Charles from the Seven Gables Bookstore, New York. Donated by him to the Stevens Memorial Library, Andover, Massachusetts, and since 1972 kept on deposit at Harvard. Inside the front cover are earlier inscriptions Harrys His Book and Sam^l. Bradstreet of the 7^th Generation from the author 1849.

Edited from this MS by all editors.

Copy by Sarah Bradstreet.

Entirely in the hand of her daughter Sarah Hubbard (née Bradstreet) and signed by her inside the front cover Sarah Bradstreet.

Donated in 1934 by The Manning Association.

Copy by Simon Bradstreet, untitled.

Pages 1-41 and [97-8] are her autograph copies largely of prose meditations written at the request of her second son, the Rev. Simon Bradstreet (1640-83), to whom she dedicated them, 20 March 1664, and one poem by her at the end dated 31 August 1669. Pages 43-66 comprise transcripts (A true Copy) by Simon Bradstreet of his mother's (now lost) manuscript book To my dear children, including diary entries for 8 July 1656 to 18 July 1666, made by him after her death in 1672. Pages 66-7 contain a poem by her copied by him from a loose paper. Pages 69-72 were then occupied later by Latin translations of some of Anne Bradstreet's prose in the volume made in his younger days by her great-grandson Simon Bradstreet (d.1771).

This MS is the Andover MS. Purchased in 1954 by Buchanan Charles from the Seven Gables Bookstore, New York. Donated by him to the Stevens Memorial Library, Andover, Massachusetts, and since 1972 kept on deposit at Harvard. Inside the front cover are earlier inscriptions Harrys His Book and Sam^l. Bradstreet of the 7^th Generation from the author 1849.

Edited from this MS by all editors.

Copy by Sarah Bradstreet.

Entirely in the hand of her daughter Sarah Hubbard (née Bradstreet) and signed by her inside the front cover Sarah Bradstreet.

Donated in 1934 by The Manning Association.

Copy by Simon Bradstreet, untitled.

Pages 1-41 and [97-8] are her autograph copies largely of prose meditations written at the request of her second son, the Rev. Simon Bradstreet (1640-83), to whom she dedicated them, 20 March 1664, and one poem by her at the end dated 31 August 1669. Pages 43-66 comprise transcripts (A true Copy) by Simon Bradstreet of his mother's (now lost) manuscript book To my dear children, including diary entries for 8 July 1656 to 18 July 1666, made by him after her death in 1672. Pages 66-7 contain a poem by her copied by him from a loose paper. Pages 69-72 were then occupied later by Latin translations of some of Anne Bradstreet's prose in the volume made in his younger days by her great-grandson Simon Bradstreet (d.1771).

This MS is the Andover MS. Purchased in 1954 by Buchanan Charles from the Seven Gables Bookstore, New York. Donated by him to the Stevens Memorial Library, Andover, Massachusetts, and since 1972 kept on deposit at Harvard. Inside the front cover are earlier inscriptions Harrys His Book and Sam^l. Bradstreet of the 7^th Generation from the author 1849.

Edited from this MS by all editors.

Copy by Sarah Bradstreet.

Entirely in the hand of her daughter Sarah Hubbard (née Bradstreet) and signed by her inside the front cover Sarah Bradstreet.

Donated in 1934 by The Manning Association.

Copy by Simon Bradstreet.

Pages 1-41 and [97-8] are her autograph copies largely of prose meditations written at the request of her second son, the Rev. Simon Bradstreet (1640-83), to whom she dedicated them, 20 March 1664, and one poem by her at the end dated 31 August 1669. Pages 43-66 comprise transcripts (A true Copy) by Simon Bradstreet of his mother's (now lost) manuscript book To my dear children, including diary entries for 8 July 1656 to 18 July 1666, made by him after her death in 1672. Pages 66-7 contain a poem by her copied by him from a loose paper. Pages 69-72 were then occupied later by Latin translations of some of Anne Bradstreet's prose in the volume made in his younger days by her great-grandson Simon Bradstreet (d.1771).

This MS is the Andover MS. Purchased in 1954 by Buchanan Charles from the Seven Gables Bookstore, New York. Donated by him to the Stevens Memorial Library, Andover, Massachusetts, and since 1972 kept on deposit at Harvard. Inside the front cover are earlier inscriptions Harrys His Book and Sam^l. Bradstreet of the 7^th Generation from the author 1849.

Edited from this MS by all editors.

Copy by Sarah Bradstreet.

Entirely in the hand of her daughter Sarah Hubbard (née Bradstreet) and signed by her inside the front cover Sarah Bradstreet.

Donated in 1934 by The Manning Association.

Copy by Simon Bradstreet, under his rubric A true Copy of a Book left by my hon^d & dear mother to her children & found among some papers after her Death.

Pages 1-41 and [97-8] are her autograph copies largely of prose meditations written at the request of her second son, the Rev. Simon Bradstreet (1640-83), to whom she dedicated them, 20 March 1664, and one poem by her at the end dated 31 August 1669. Pages 43-66 comprise transcripts (A true Copy) by Simon Bradstreet of his mother's (now lost) manuscript book To my dear children, including diary entries for 8 July 1656 to 18 July 1666, made by him after her death in 1672. Pages 66-7 contain a poem by her copied by him from a loose paper. Pages 69-72 were then occupied later by Latin translations of some of Anne Bradstreet's prose in the volume made in his younger days by her great-grandson Simon Bradstreet (d.1771).

This MS is the Andover MS. Purchased in 1954 by Buchanan Charles from the Seven Gables Bookstore, New York. Donated by him to the Stevens Memorial Library, Andover, Massachusetts, and since 1972 kept on deposit at Harvard. Inside the front cover are earlier inscriptions Harrys His Book and Sam^l. Bradstreet of the 7^th Generation from the author 1849.

Edited from this MS by all editors.

Copy by Sarah Bradstreet.

Entirely in the hand of her daughter Sarah Hubbard (née Bradstreet) and signed by her inside the front cover Sarah Bradstreet.

Donated in 1934 by The Manning Association.

Copy by Simon Bradstreet.

Pages 1-41 and [97-8] are her autograph copies largely of prose meditations written at the request of her second son, the Rev. Simon Bradstreet (1640-83), to whom she dedicated them, 20 March 1664, and one poem by her at the end dated 31 August 1669. Pages 43-66 comprise transcripts (A true Copy) by Simon Bradstreet of his mother's (now lost) manuscript book To my dear children, including diary entries for 8 July 1656 to 18 July 1666, made by him after her death in 1672. Pages 66-7 contain a poem by her copied by him from a loose paper. Pages 69-72 were then occupied later by Latin translations of some of Anne Bradstreet's prose in the volume made in his younger days by her great-grandson Simon Bradstreet (d.1771).

This MS is the Andover MS. Purchased in 1954 by Buchanan Charles from the Seven Gables Bookstore, New York. Donated by him to the Stevens Memorial Library, Andover, Massachusetts, and since 1972 kept on deposit at Harvard. Inside the front cover are earlier inscriptions Harrys His Book and Sam^l. Bradstreet of the 7^th Generation from the author 1849.

Edited from this MS by all editors.

Copy by Sarah Bradstreet.

Entirely in the hand of her daughter Sarah Hubbard (née Bradstreet) and signed by her inside the front cover Sarah Bradstreet.

Donated in 1934 by The Manning Association.

Copy by Simon Bradstreet.

Pages 1-41 and [97-8] are her autograph copies largely of prose meditations written at the request of her second son, the Rev. Simon Bradstreet (1640-83), to whom she dedicated them, 20 March 1664, and one poem by her at the end dated 31 August 1669. Pages 43-66 comprise transcripts (A true Copy) by Simon Bradstreet of his mother's (now lost) manuscript book To my dear children, including diary entries for 8 July 1656 to 18 July 1666, made by him after her death in 1672. Pages 66-7 contain a poem by her copied by him from a loose paper. Pages 69-72 were then occupied later by Latin translations of some of Anne Bradstreet's prose in the volume made in his younger days by her great-grandson Simon Bradstreet (d.1771).

This MS is the Andover MS. Purchased in 1954 by Buchanan Charles from the Seven Gables Bookstore, New York. Donated by him to the Stevens Memorial Library, Andover, Massachusetts, and since 1972 kept on deposit at Harvard. Inside the front cover are earlier inscriptions Harrys His Book and Sam^l. Bradstreet of the 7^th Generation from the author 1849.

Edited from this MS by all editors.

Copy by Sarah Bradstreet.

Entirely in the hand of her daughter Sarah Hubbard (née Bradstreet) and signed by her inside the front cover Sarah Bradstreet.

Donated in 1934 by The Manning Association.

Copy by Simon Bradstreet.

Pages 1-41 and [97-8] are her autograph copies largely of prose meditations written at the request of her second son, the Rev. Simon Bradstreet (1640-83), to whom she dedicated them, 20 March 1664, and one poem by her at the end dated 31 August 1669. Pages 43-66 comprise transcripts (A true Copy) by Simon Bradstreet of his mother's (now lost) manuscript book To my dear children, including diary entries for 8 July 1656 to 18 July 1666, made by him after her death in 1672. Pages 66-7 contain a poem by her copied by him from a loose paper. Pages 69-72 were then occupied later by Latin translations of some of Anne Bradstreet's prose in the volume made in his younger days by her great-grandson Simon Bradstreet (d.1771).

This MS is the Andover MS. Purchased in 1954 by Buchanan Charles from the Seven Gables Bookstore, New York. Donated by him to the Stevens Memorial Library, Andover, Massachusetts, and since 1972 kept on deposit at Harvard. Inside the front cover are earlier inscriptions Harrys His Book and Sam^l. Bradstreet of the 7^th Generation from the author 1849.

Edited from this MS by all editors.

Copy by Sarah Bradstreet.

Entirely in the hand of her daughter Sarah Hubbard (née Bradstreet) and signed by her inside the front cover Sarah Bradstreet.

Donated in 1934 by The Manning Association.

Copy by Simon Bradstreet, untitled.

Pages 1-41 and [97-8] are her autograph copies largely of prose meditations written at the request of her second son, the Rev. Simon Bradstreet (1640-83), to whom she dedicated them, 20 March 1664, and one poem by her at the end dated 31 August 1669. Pages 43-66 comprise transcripts (A true Copy) by Simon Bradstreet of his mother's (now lost) manuscript book To my dear children, including diary entries for 8 July 1656 to 18 July 1666, made by him after her death in 1672. Pages 66-7 contain a poem by her copied by him from a loose paper. Pages 69-72 were then occupied later by Latin translations of some of Anne Bradstreet's prose in the volume made in his younger days by her great-grandson Simon Bradstreet (d.1771).

This MS is the Andover MS. Purchased in 1954 by Buchanan Charles from the Seven Gables Bookstore, New York. Donated by him to the Stevens Memorial Library, Andover, Massachusetts, and since 1972 kept on deposit at Harvard. Inside the front cover are earlier inscriptions Harrys His Book and Sam^l. Bradstreet of the 7^th Generation from the author 1849.

Edited from this MS by all editors.

Copy by Sarah Bradstreet.

Entirely in the hand of her daughter Sarah Hubbard (née Bradstreet) and signed by her inside the front cover Sarah Bradstreet.

Donated in 1934 by The Manning Association.

Autograph.

Pages 1-41 and [97-8] are her autograph copies largely of prose meditations written at the request of her second son, the Rev. Simon Bradstreet (1640-83), to whom she dedicated them, 20 March 1664, and one poem by her at the end dated 31 August 1669. Pages 43-66 comprise transcripts (A true Copy) by Simon Bradstreet of his mother's (now lost) manuscript book To my dear children, including diary entries for 8 July 1656 to 18 July 1666, made by him after her death in 1672. Pages 66-7 contain a poem by her copied by him from a loose paper. Pages 69-72 were then occupied later by Latin translations of some of Anne Bradstreet's prose in the volume made in his younger days by her great-grandson Simon Bradstreet (d.1771).

This MS is the Andover MS. Purchased in 1954 by Buchanan Charles from the Seven Gables Bookstore, New York. Donated by him to the Stevens Memorial Library, Andover, Massachusetts, and since 1972 kept on deposit at Harvard. Inside the front cover are earlier inscriptions Harrys His Book and Sam^l. Bradstreet of the 7^th Generation from the author 1849.

Edited from this MS by all editors. Facsimile of both pages in Ellis, pp. [45-6].

Autograph copy by Simon Bradstreet (d.1771), great-grandson of Anne Bradstreet, of his Latin translation of her dedicatory letter, headed Ad Sim. Bradstreet filium charissimum meum, beginning In posteris Parentes vitam perpetuam faciunt..., and subscribed Hæc Epistola RomanoSermone versus est à Simone Bradstreet hujus Excellentissimæ Fæminæ Pronepote, cum sequentibus Meditatiunculis.

Pages 1-41 and [97-8] are her autograph copies largely of prose meditations written at the request of her second son, the Rev. Simon Bradstreet (1640-83), to whom she dedicated them, 20 March 1664, and one poem by her at the end dated 31 August 1669. Pages 43-66 comprise transcripts (A true Copy) by Simon Bradstreet of his mother's (now lost) manuscript book To my dear children, including diary entries for 8 July 1656 to 18 July 1666, made by him after her death in 1672. Pages 66-7 contain a poem by her copied by him from a loose paper. Pages 69-72 were then occupied later by Latin translations of some of Anne Bradstreet's prose in the volume made in his younger days by her great-grandson Simon Bradstreet (d.1771).

This MS is the Andover MS. Purchased in 1954 by Buchanan Charles from the Seven Gables Bookstore, New York. Donated by him to the Stevens Memorial Library, Andover, Massachusetts, and since 1972 kept on deposit at Harvard. Inside the front cover are earlier inscriptions Harrys His Book and Sam^l. Bradstreet of the 7^th Generation from the author 1849.

Edited from this MS in Ellis, p. 74.

Copy by Sarah Bradstreet.

Entirely in the hand of her daughter Sarah Hubbard (née Bradstreet) and signed by her inside the front cover Sarah Bradstreet.

Donated in 1934 by The Manning Association.

Autograph, subscribed by Simon Bradstreet My hon^d. & dear mother intended to haue filled up this Book wth the like observations but was pvented by Death.

Pages 1-41 and [97-8] are her autograph copies largely of prose meditations written at the request of her second son, the Rev. Simon Bradstreet (1640-83), to whom she dedicated them, 20 March 1664, and one poem by her at the end dated 31 August 1669. Pages 43-66 comprise transcripts (A true Copy) by Simon Bradstreet of his mother's (now lost) manuscript book To my dear children, including diary entries for 8 July 1656 to 18 July 1666, made by him after her death in 1672. Pages 66-7 contain a poem by her copied by him from a loose paper. Pages 69-72 were then occupied later by Latin translations of some of Anne Bradstreet's prose in the volume made in his younger days by her great-grandson Simon Bradstreet (d.1771).

This MS is the Andover MS. Purchased in 1954 by Buchanan Charles from the Seven Gables Bookstore, New York. Donated by him to the Stevens Memorial Library, Andover, Massachusetts, and since 1972 kept on deposit at Harvard. Inside the front cover are earlier inscriptions Harrys His Book and Sam^l. Bradstreet of the 7^th Generation from the author 1849.

Edited from this MS by all editors.

Copy by Sarah Bradstreet.

Entirely in the hand of her daughter Sarah Hubbard (née Bradstreet) and signed by her inside the front cover Sarah Bradstreet.

Donated in 1934 by The Manning Association.

Autograph copy by Simon Bradstreet (d.1771), great-grandson of Anne Bradstreet, of his Latin translation of the first four meditations, headed Meditationes divinæ & Ethicæ and here beginning Est nihil occulis visibile, hominum nullæ actiones....

Pages 1-41 and [97-8] are her autograph copies largely of prose meditations written at the request of her second son, the Rev. Simon Bradstreet (1640-83), to whom she dedicated them, 20 March 1664, and one poem by her at the end dated 31 August 1669. Pages 43-66 comprise transcripts (A true Copy) by Simon Bradstreet of his mother's (now lost) manuscript book To my dear children, including diary entries for 8 July 1656 to 18 July 1666, made by him after her death in 1672. Pages 66-7 contain a poem by her copied by him from a loose paper. Pages 69-72 were then occupied later by Latin translations of some of Anne Bradstreet's prose in the volume made in his younger days by her great-grandson Simon Bradstreet (d.1771).

This MS is the Andover MS. Purchased in 1954 by Buchanan Charles from the Seven Gables Bookstore, New York. Donated by him to the Stevens Memorial Library, Andover, Massachusetts, and since 1972 kept on deposit at Harvard. Inside the front cover are earlier inscriptions Harrys His Book and Sam^l. Bradstreet of the 7^th Generation from the author 1849.

Edited from this MS in Ellis, pp. 75-6.

Copy by Simon Bradstreet, the prose sections on pp. 51-3, 54-5, 56-7, 58, and 61; the verse elsewhere.

Pages 1-41 and [97-8] are her autograph copies largely of prose meditations written at the request of her second son, the Rev. Simon Bradstreet (1640-83), to whom she dedicated them, 20 March 1664, and one poem by her at the end dated 31 August 1669. Pages 43-66 comprise transcripts (A true Copy) by Simon Bradstreet of his mother's (now lost) manuscript book To my dear children, including diary entries for 8 July 1656 to 18 July 1666, made by him after her death in 1672. Pages 66-7 contain a poem by her copied by him from a loose paper. Pages 69-72 were then occupied later by Latin translations of some of Anne Bradstreet's prose in the volume made in his younger days by her great-grandson Simon Bradstreet (d.1771).

This MS is the Andover MS. Purchased in 1954 by Buchanan Charles from the Seven Gables Bookstore, New York. Donated by him to the Stevens Memorial Library, Andover, Massachusetts, and since 1972 kept on deposit at Harvard. Inside the front cover are earlier inscriptions Harrys His Book and Sam^l. Bradstreet of the 7^th Generation from the author 1849.

Edited from this MS by all editors.

Copy by Sarah Bradstreet, the prose passages on pp. [67-70, 74-6, 78-9, 86]; the verse elsewhere.

Entirely in the hand of her daughter Sarah Hubbard (née Bradstreet) and signed by her inside the front cover Sarah Bradstreet.

Donated in 1934 by The Manning Association.

Copy by Sarah Bradstreet.

Entirely in the hand of her daughter Sarah Hubbard (née Bradstreet) and signed by her inside the front cover Sarah Bradstreet.

Donated in 1934 by The Manning Association.