Anne, Lady Twysden
Prose
Anne, Lady Twysden's Prayerbook
TwA 1
Copy, in a neat italic hand, entitled (f. [vir]) in the small italic hand of Sir Roger Twysden, second Baronet (1597-1672), antiquary, Certayn comfortable places of Scripture and three prayers collected and made by my deare and Noble Mother ye Lady Ann Twysden who dyed at her howse in East=Peckham the 14th of October 1638 / Roger Twysden , and with his headnotes, vii leaves + 84 octavo pages (including blanks, plus further blanks at the end, in contemporary vellum with green ties.
Transcribed from Lady Twysden's original MS (known as the Jennings-Bramley MS and now untraced) and including a prayer by her brother, Sir Heneage Finch (1580-1631), Speaker of the House of Commons.
c.1638.Described in detail in the online Perdita Project.
Letters
Letter(s)
*TwA 2
Autograph letter signed (Anne Twysden
), in her italic hand, to My swetehart
, on three pages of a pair of conjugate quarto leaves, the text written in various directions.
In:
A folio guardbook of correspondence chiefly of the Twysden family, of Roydon Hall, East Peckham, Kent, in various hands and paper sizes, 51 leaves, in 19th-century morocco.
Sotheby's, 7-8 April 1892.
TwA 3
Autograph letter signed (Anne Twysden), in her italic hand, to My swetehart
, on a single folio leaf, the text written in various directions.
In:
A folio guardbook of correspondence chiefly of the Twysden family, of Roydon Hall, East Peckham, Kent, in various hands and paper sizes, 51 leaves, in 19th-century morocco.
Sotheby's, 7-8 April 1892.