Anne Wharton

Verse

The Complaint

Unpublished.

WhA 1

Copy of the title only.

In: A quarto volume of twenty-four poems by Anne Wharton and one by Edmund Waller, 100 pages (including 13 blank pages, plus 58 blank pages at the end), in contemporary red morocco gilt.

In a single neat possibly female hand, including headings or incipits only to seven further poems whose texts were not entered.

Late 17th-early 18th century.

Sotheby's, 28 November 1933, lot 557. Later owned by John R.B. Brett-Smith (1917-2003), publisher and bookseller. Sotheby's, 27 May 2004 (Brett-Smith sale), lot 608, to Freeman.

Facsimile of p. 55 in the 2004 sale catalogue.

The Despair. To D. Burnet by Mrs Wharton
('The use of Knowledge is to find it poor')

First published in Greer & Hastings (1997), No. 18, pp. 180-1.

WhA 2

Copy.

In: A folio volume principally of poems, the majority (at least 20) by Edmund Waller, some probably by members of his family, 73 unnumbered leaves, in calf gilt.

Including copies of various drafts, fragments and extracts, as well as poems by other writers such as Anne Wharton, Sir Charles Berkeley, Sir Thomas Higgons (including part of a play by him), Elizabeth Taylor (Lady Wythens, afterwards Lady Colepeper), Ephelia, George Granville, the Duke of Buckingham, Sir George Etherege, the Earl of Rochester, James Shirley, and Thomas Rymer, also extracts from Dryden and Davenant; almost entirely in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, with considerable variation of style; an apparently second, unidentified, hand copying verse and prose (Memoire…par le Sieur Lycelot…Le 9me de Decembre 1687 and Instructions to the Judges of Assize &c Lent 1687/8) on ff. [23r, 62r-7v, 70v]; two of these leaves ([65r and 70v]) docketed in a later hand (after 1713) The Handwriting of Dr Atterbury and Bishp Atterbury [meaning perhaps copied from Atterbury's writing (see WaE Δ 15)]; a draft letter addressed (as is clear from the content) to Catherine, Lady Ranelagh (1614-91), sister of the noble and learned…Mr [Robert] Boyle, on f. [16v], enclosing ffathers last verses [not specified], noting his reluctance to write anything for the forthcoming marriage of Princess Anne and Prince George of Denmark [which took place on 28 July 1684], and observing that he has now consecrated his remayning facullty in vers to devotion; a poem Of his voyage vp the river to vissett (beginning In my breast Eternall flames) on f. [71r] ascribed to Mrs M Waller (presumably Waller's second wife, Mary Bresse or Breaux, d. 1677); some scribbling and calculations on ff. 3r, 71v, 72v, 73v, a label on the spine erroneously identifying the volume as a compilation by Brian Fairfax (1637-1711).

c.1693-8.

Later owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1798-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9096.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Harvard MS: WaE Δ 6.

This MS collated in Greer & Hastings.

WhA 3

Copy of lines 1-33, headed On Knowledge.

In: A quarto volume of poems almost entirely by Anne Wharton (1659-85), 21 quarto leaves. Late 17th century.

Probably once owned by Lady Ann Coke. Among the manuscripts of the Coke family, Earls of Leicester, including collections of Sir Edward Coke (1552-1634), lawyer and politician.

Recorded in HMC, 9th Report (1883), Appendix, p. 371.

This MS collated in Greer & Hastings.

WhA 4

Copy of all 55 lines, headed The Despare.

In: A quarto volume of poems almost entirely by Anne Wharton (1659-85), 21 quarto leaves. Late 17th century.

Probably once owned by Lady Ann Coke. Among the manuscripts of the Coke family, Earls of Leicester, including collections of Sir Edward Coke (1552-1634), lawyer and politician.

Recorded in HMC, 9th Report (1883), Appendix, p. 371.

This MS collated in Greer & Hastings.

WhA 5

Copy, in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, headed The Despair of Knowledge by Mrs Wharton.

In: A sheaf of sixteen folio leaves of verse, in a single hand, disbound.

Among the papers of the Waller family.

WhA 6
In: A folio booklet of four leaves. c.1700.

This MS collated in Greer & Hastings.

WhA 7

Copy, headed The Dispaire.

In: A quarto volume of twenty-four poems by Anne Wharton and one by Edmund Waller, 100 pages (including 13 blank pages, plus 58 blank pages at the end), in contemporary red morocco gilt.

In a single neat possibly female hand, including headings or incipits only to seven further poems whose texts were not entered.

Late 17th-early 18th century.

Sotheby's, 28 November 1933, lot 557. Later owned by John R.B. Brett-Smith (1917-2003), publisher and bookseller. Sotheby's, 27 May 2004 (Brett-Smith sale), lot 608, to Freeman.

Facsimile of p. 55 in the 2004 sale catalogue.

Elegie on Charles Earle of Rochester
('Insatiate graue yeild back thy mighty Treasure')

First published in Greer & Hastings (1997), No. 11, pp. 163-4.

WhA 8

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of poems almost entirely by Anne Wharton (1659-85), 21 quarto leaves. Late 17th century.

Probably once owned by Lady Ann Coke. Among the manuscripts of the Coke family, Earls of Leicester, including collections of Sir Edward Coke (1552-1634), lawyer and politician.

Recorded in HMC, 9th Report (1883), Appendix, p. 371.

Edited from this MS in Greer & Hastings.

WhA 9

Copy, headed On the Earle of Rochester son to ye former.

In: A quarto volume of twenty-four poems by Anne Wharton and one by Edmund Waller, 100 pages (including 13 blank pages, plus 58 blank pages at the end), in contemporary red morocco gilt.

In a single neat possibly female hand, including headings or incipits only to seven further poems whose texts were not entered.

Late 17th-early 18th century.

Sotheby's, 28 November 1933, lot 557. Later owned by John R.B. Brett-Smith (1917-2003), publisher and bookseller. Sotheby's, 27 May 2004 (Brett-Smith sale), lot 608, to Freeman.

Facsimile of p. 55 in the 2004 sale catalogue.

Elegie on John Earle of Rochester
('Deep Waters silent roul, so greifs like mine')

First published in Poems by Several Hands (London, 1685). Greer & Hastings, No. 7, pp. 140-2.

WhA 10

Copy of a 33-line version.

In: A large quarto miscellany of poems chiefly on affairs of state, entitled Collection of Choice Poemes, in a single neat hand, with a Catalogue of contents (ff. 382v-6v), 387 leaves, in half brown morocco gilt. c.1703.

Note of purchase (f. 1r) pd - 6 - 9 -/ April 24 1703.

This MS collated in Greer and Hastings.

WhA 11

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of poems almost entirely by Anne Wharton (1659-85), 21 quarto leaves. Late 17th century.

Probably once owned by Lady Ann Coke. Among the manuscripts of the Coke family, Earls of Leicester, including collections of Sir Edward Coke (1552-1634), lawyer and politician.

Recorded in HMC, 9th Report (1883), Appendix, p. 371.

Edited from this MS in Greer & Hastings.

WhA 12

Copy of a 33-line version, in the hand of one of Waller's daughters.

In: A sheaf of sixteen folio leaves of verse, in a single hand, disbound.

Among the papers of the Waller family.

This MS collated in Greer & Hastings.

WhA 13

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of twenty-four poems by Anne Wharton and one by Edmund Waller, 100 pages (including 13 blank pages, plus 58 blank pages at the end), in contemporary red morocco gilt.

In a single neat possibly female hand, including headings or incipits only to seven further poems whose texts were not entered.

Late 17th-early 18th century.

Sotheby's, 28 November 1933, lot 557. Later owned by John R.B. Brett-Smith (1917-2003), publisher and bookseller. Sotheby's, 27 May 2004 (Brett-Smith sale), lot 608, to Freeman.

Facsimile of p. 55 in the 2004 sale catalogue.

From Mrs. Wharton
('Small are the poor Returns which you receive')

First published (in a 33-line version) in The Idea of Christian Love (1688). Greer & Hastings, No. 22, p. 188.

WhA 14

Copy, in a neat hand, untitled, on the fourth page of two pairs of conjugate quarto leaves (the second pair unopened), once folded as a letter.

In: A collection of unbound verse manuscripts, in various hands and paper sizes (chiefly folio), 142 leaves.

Partly compiled by Sir Richard Browne and his father Christopher Browne (1577-1646), of Saye's Court, Deptford.

Volume LXVII of the Evelyn Papers, of John Evelyn (1620-1706), diarist and writer, of Wootton House, Surrey, and his family, also incorporating papers of his father-in-law, Sir Richard Browne, Bt (1605-83), diplomat, and his family. Formerly preserved at Christ Church, Oxford. Acquired March 1995.

His Majesties Lamentation over King Charles ye Second In Allusion To Davids over Jonathan 2 Sam: chap: 1st: Verse ye 19th
('The beauty of the blessed land is fled')

Unpublished.

WhA 15

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of twenty-four poems by Anne Wharton and one by Edmund Waller, 100 pages (including 13 blank pages, plus 58 blank pages at the end), in contemporary red morocco gilt.

In a single neat possibly female hand, including headings or incipits only to seven further poems whose texts were not entered.

Late 17th-early 18th century.

Sotheby's, 28 November 1933, lot 557. Later owned by John R.B. Brett-Smith (1917-2003), publisher and bookseller. Sotheby's, 27 May 2004 (Brett-Smith sale), lot 608, to Freeman.

Facsimile of p. 55 in the 2004 sale catalogue.

The inconstancy of Woman kind
('Whilst on the shore Aminta Lay')

Unpublished.

WhA 16

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of twenty-four poems by Anne Wharton and one by Edmund Waller, 100 pages (including 13 blank pages, plus 58 blank pages at the end), in contemporary red morocco gilt.

In a single neat possibly female hand, including headings or incipits only to seven further poems whose texts were not entered.

Late 17th-early 18th century.

Sotheby's, 28 November 1933, lot 557. Later owned by John R.B. Brett-Smith (1917-2003), publisher and bookseller. Sotheby's, 27 May 2004 (Brett-Smith sale), lot 608, to Freeman.

Facsimile of p. 55 in the 2004 sale catalogue.

The Lamentations of Jeremiah
('How doth the Mournfull Widow'd City bow?')

First published in A Collection of Poems by Several Hands (London, 1693), pp. 224-33. Greer & Hastings, No. 10, pp. 145-62.

WhA 17

Copy, headed The Lamentations of Jeremiah. By Ms: Wharton.

In: A small quarto miscellany, in a single neat hand, 34 pages, in marbled stiff paper wrapper. c.1720.

In the collection of Robert H. Taylor (1908-85), American book and manuscript collector. Formerly cited as the Addison Miscellany.

This MS collated in Greer & Hastings.

WhA 18

Copy.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, in a stylish professional hand, with some rubricated headings, 58 pages, in contemporary calf, now disbound. c.1690s.

Formerly Chest II, No. 36.

This MS collated in Greer & Hastings.

WhA 19

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of twenty-four poems by Anne Wharton and one by Edmund Waller, 100 pages (including 13 blank pages, plus 58 blank pages at the end), in contemporary red morocco gilt.

In a single neat possibly female hand, including headings or incipits only to seven further poems whose texts were not entered.

Late 17th-early 18th century.

Sotheby's, 28 November 1933, lot 557. Later owned by John R.B. Brett-Smith (1917-2003), publisher and bookseller. Sotheby's, 27 May 2004 (Brett-Smith sale), lot 608, to Freeman.

Facsimile of p. 55 in the 2004 sale catalogue.

My Fate
('Raising my drooping Head, o'er charg'd with Thought')

First published in A Collection of Poems by Several Hands (London, 1693), pp. 251-2. Greer & Hastings, No. 4, p. 131.

WhA 20

Copy of the title only, altered from My Fall.

In: A quarto volume of twenty-four poems by Anne Wharton and one by Edmund Waller, 100 pages (including 13 blank pages, plus 58 blank pages at the end), in contemporary red morocco gilt.

In a single neat possibly female hand, including headings or incipits only to seven further poems whose texts were not entered.

Late 17th-early 18th century.

Sotheby's, 28 November 1933, lot 557. Later owned by John R.B. Brett-Smith (1917-2003), publisher and bookseller. Sotheby's, 27 May 2004 (Brett-Smith sale), lot 608, to Freeman.

Facsimile of p. 55 in the 2004 sale catalogue.

On the Storm between Gravesend and Dieppe; Made at that Time
('When the Tempestuous Sea did foam and roar')

First published in A Collection of Poems by Several Hands (London, 1693), pp. 240-1. Greer & Hastings, No. 9, p. 144.

WhA 21

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of poems almost entirely by Anne Wharton (1659-85), 21 quarto leaves. Late 17th century.

Probably once owned by Lady Ann Coke. Among the manuscripts of the Coke family, Earls of Leicester, including collections of Sir Edward Coke (1552-1634), lawyer and politician.

Recorded in HMC, 9th Report (1883), Appendix, p. 371.

This MS collated in Greer & Hastings.

WhA 22

Copy, in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, headed Mrs Wharton.

In: A folio booklet of four leaves. c.1700.

This MS collated in Greer & Hastings.

WhA 23

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of twenty-four poems by Anne Wharton and one by Edmund Waller, 100 pages (including 13 blank pages, plus 58 blank pages at the end), in contemporary red morocco gilt.

In a single neat possibly female hand, including headings or incipits only to seven further poems whose texts were not entered.

Late 17th-early 18th century.

Sotheby's, 28 November 1933, lot 557. Later owned by John R.B. Brett-Smith (1917-2003), publisher and bookseller. Sotheby's, 27 May 2004 (Brett-Smith sale), lot 608, to Freeman.

Facsimile of p. 55 in the 2004 sale catalogue.

A Paraphrase on ye 47th Chapter of Isaiah
('Downe haughty Virgin down even to the earth')
WhA 24

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of twenty-four poems by Anne Wharton and one by Edmund Waller, 100 pages (including 13 blank pages, plus 58 blank pages at the end), in contemporary red morocco gilt.

In a single neat possibly female hand, including headings or incipits only to seven further poems whose texts were not entered.

Late 17th-early 18th century.

Sotheby's, 28 November 1933, lot 557. Later owned by John R.B. Brett-Smith (1917-2003), publisher and bookseller. Sotheby's, 27 May 2004 (Brett-Smith sale), lot 608, to Freeman.

Facsimile of p. 55 in the 2004 sale catalogue.

A Paraphrase on the 53 of Isaiah
('Who hath beleived on Earth what we report')

First published in Greer & Hastings (1997), No. 14, pp. 169-71.

WhA 25

Copy of lines 1-8.

In: A folio volume principally of poems, the majority (at least 20) by Edmund Waller, some probably by members of his family, 73 unnumbered leaves, in calf gilt.

Including copies of various drafts, fragments and extracts, as well as poems by other writers such as Anne Wharton, Sir Charles Berkeley, Sir Thomas Higgons (including part of a play by him), Elizabeth Taylor (Lady Wythens, afterwards Lady Colepeper), Ephelia, George Granville, the Duke of Buckingham, Sir George Etherege, the Earl of Rochester, James Shirley, and Thomas Rymer, also extracts from Dryden and Davenant; almost entirely in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, with considerable variation of style; an apparently second, unidentified, hand copying verse and prose (Memoire…par le Sieur Lycelot…Le 9me de Decembre 1687 and Instructions to the Judges of Assize &c Lent 1687/8) on ff. [23r, 62r-7v, 70v]; two of these leaves ([65r and 70v]) docketed in a later hand (after 1713) The Handwriting of Dr Atterbury and Bishp Atterbury [meaning perhaps copied from Atterbury's writing (see WaE Δ 15)]; a draft letter addressed (as is clear from the content) to Catherine, Lady Ranelagh (1614-91), sister of the noble and learned…Mr [Robert] Boyle, on f. [16v], enclosing ffathers last verses [not specified], noting his reluctance to write anything for the forthcoming marriage of Princess Anne and Prince George of Denmark [which took place on 28 July 1684], and observing that he has now consecrated his remayning facullty in vers to devotion; a poem Of his voyage vp the river to vissett (beginning In my breast Eternall flames) on f. [71r] ascribed to Mrs M Waller (presumably Waller's second wife, Mary Bresse or Breaux, d. 1677); some scribbling and calculations on ff. 3r, 71v, 72v, 73v, a label on the spine erroneously identifying the volume as a compilation by Brian Fairfax (1637-1711).

c.1693-8.

Later owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1798-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9096.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Harvard MS: WaE Δ 6.

This MS collated in Greer & Hastings.

WhA 26

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of poems almost entirely by Anne Wharton (1659-85), 21 quarto leaves. Late 17th century.

Probably once owned by Lady Ann Coke. Among the manuscripts of the Coke family, Earls of Leicester, including collections of Sir Edward Coke (1552-1634), lawyer and politician.

Recorded in HMC, 9th Report (1883), Appendix, p. 371.

Edited from this MS in Greer & Hastings.

WhA 27

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of twenty-four poems by Anne Wharton and one by Edmund Waller, 100 pages (including 13 blank pages, plus 58 blank pages at the end), in contemporary red morocco gilt.

In a single neat possibly female hand, including headings or incipits only to seven further poems whose texts were not entered.

Late 17th-early 18th century.

Sotheby's, 28 November 1933, lot 557. Later owned by John R.B. Brett-Smith (1917-2003), publisher and bookseller. Sotheby's, 27 May 2004 (Brett-Smith sale), lot 608, to Freeman.

Facsimile of p. 55 in the 2004 sale catalogue.

A Paraphrase on the last speech of Dido in Virgil's Æneas
('Now Dido trembles with amaze and rage')

First published in Greer & Hastings (1997), No. 6, pp. 138-9.

WhA 28

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of poems almost entirely by Anne Wharton (1659-85), 21 quarto leaves. Late 17th century.

Probably once owned by Lady Ann Coke. Among the manuscripts of the Coke family, Earls of Leicester, including collections of Sir Edward Coke (1552-1634), lawyer and politician.

Recorded in HMC, 9th Report (1883), Appendix, p. 371.

Edited from this MS in Greer & Hastings.

WhA 29

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of twenty-four poems by Anne Wharton and one by Edmund Waller, 100 pages (including 13 blank pages, plus 58 blank pages at the end), in contemporary red morocco gilt.

In a single neat possibly female hand, including headings or incipits only to seven further poems whose texts were not entered.

Late 17th-early 18th century.

Sotheby's, 28 November 1933, lot 557. Later owned by John R.B. Brett-Smith (1917-2003), publisher and bookseller. Sotheby's, 27 May 2004 (Brett-Smith sale), lot 608, to Freeman.

Facsimile of p. 55 in the 2004 sale catalogue.

A Paraphrase on the Lords prayer
('Father of Men, and Angels, Heaven, and Earth')

Unpublished. Referred to in Greer & Hastings (p. 120) as one known lost poem … which was imitated by Waller and possibly by Aphra Behn as well.

WhA 30

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of twenty-four poems by Anne Wharton and one by Edmund Waller, 100 pages (including 13 blank pages, plus 58 blank pages at the end), in contemporary red morocco gilt.

In a single neat possibly female hand, including headings or incipits only to seven further poems whose texts were not entered.

Late 17th-early 18th century.

Sotheby's, 28 November 1933, lot 557. Later owned by John R.B. Brett-Smith (1917-2003), publisher and bookseller. Sotheby's, 27 May 2004 (Brett-Smith sale), lot 608, to Freeman.

Facsimile of p. 55 in the 2004 sale catalogue.

A Paraphrase on ye 4 Psalm
('To thee my prayers as heretofore ascend')

Unpublished.

WhA 31

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of twenty-four poems by Anne Wharton and one by Edmund Waller, 100 pages (including 13 blank pages, plus 58 blank pages at the end), in contemporary red morocco gilt.

In a single neat possibly female hand, including headings or incipits only to seven further poems whose texts were not entered.

Late 17th-early 18th century.

Sotheby's, 28 November 1933, lot 557. Later owned by John R.B. Brett-Smith (1917-2003), publisher and bookseller. Sotheby's, 27 May 2004 (Brett-Smith sale), lot 608, to Freeman.

Facsimile of p. 55 in the 2004 sale catalogue.

A Paraphrase on ye 36 Psalm
('My boding heart discouers to my sight')

Unpublished.

WhA 32

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of twenty-four poems by Anne Wharton and one by Edmund Waller, 100 pages (including 13 blank pages, plus 58 blank pages at the end), in contemporary red morocco gilt.

In a single neat possibly female hand, including headings or incipits only to seven further poems whose texts were not entered.

Late 17th-early 18th century.

Sotheby's, 28 November 1933, lot 557. Later owned by John R.B. Brett-Smith (1917-2003), publisher and bookseller. Sotheby's, 27 May 2004 (Brett-Smith sale), lot 608, to Freeman.

Facsimile of p. 55 in the 2004 sale catalogue.

A Paraphrase on ye 37 Psalm
('Wrach not thy peacfull heart with envious pain')

Unpublished.

WhA 33

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of twenty-four poems by Anne Wharton and one by Edmund Waller, 100 pages (including 13 blank pages, plus 58 blank pages at the end), in contemporary red morocco gilt.

In a single neat possibly female hand, including headings or incipits only to seven further poems whose texts were not entered.

Late 17th-early 18th century.

Sotheby's, 28 November 1933, lot 557. Later owned by John R.B. Brett-Smith (1917-2003), publisher and bookseller. Sotheby's, 27 May 2004 (Brett-Smith sale), lot 608, to Freeman.

Facsimile of p. 55 in the 2004 sale catalogue.

A Paraphrase on ye 45th Psalm
('With pregnant Thought my labouring breast is fyr'd')

Unpublished.

WhA 34
In: A quarto volume of twenty-four poems by Anne Wharton and one by Edmund Waller, 100 pages (including 13 blank pages, plus 58 blank pages at the end), in contemporary red morocco gilt.

In a single neat possibly female hand, including headings or incipits only to seven further poems whose texts were not entered.

Late 17th-early 18th century.

Sotheby's, 28 November 1933, lot 557. Later owned by John R.B. Brett-Smith (1917-2003), publisher and bookseller. Sotheby's, 27 May 2004 (Brett-Smith sale), lot 608, to Freeman.

Facsimile of p. 55 in the 2004 sale catalogue.

Mrs. Wharton's Paraphrase Upon the 103d Psalm
('Advance my Soul, and all thy Pow'rs incline')

First published in The Idea of Christian Love (London, 1688), pp. xix-xxiii. Greer & Hastings, No. 15, pp. 172-4.

WhA 35

Copy, in a neat italic hand, headed A Paraphrase upon the 103 Psalme, on three pages of two pairs of conjugate quarto leaves (the second pair unopened), once folded as a letter.

In: A collection of unbound verse manuscripts, in various hands and paper sizes (chiefly folio), 142 leaves.

Partly compiled by Sir Richard Browne and his father Christopher Browne (1577-1646), of Saye's Court, Deptford.

Volume LXVII of the Evelyn Papers, of John Evelyn (1620-1706), diarist and writer, of Wootton House, Surrey, and his family, also incorporating papers of his father-in-law, Sir Richard Browne, Bt (1605-83), diplomat, and his family. Formerly preserved at Christ Church, Oxford. Acquired March 1995.

WhA 36

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of poems almost entirely by Anne Wharton (1659-85), 21 quarto leaves. Late 17th century.

Probably once owned by Lady Ann Coke. Among the manuscripts of the Coke family, Earls of Leicester, including collections of Sir Edward Coke (1552-1634), lawyer and politician.

Recorded in HMC, 9th Report (1883), Appendix, p. 371.

This MS collated in Greer & Hastings.

WhA 37

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of twenty-four poems by Anne Wharton and one by Edmund Waller, 100 pages (including 13 blank pages, plus 58 blank pages at the end), in contemporary red morocco gilt.

In a single neat possibly female hand, including headings or incipits only to seven further poems whose texts were not entered.

Late 17th-early 18th century.

Sotheby's, 28 November 1933, lot 557. Later owned by John R.B. Brett-Smith (1917-2003), publisher and bookseller. Sotheby's, 27 May 2004 (Brett-Smith sale), lot 608, to Freeman.

Facsimile of p. 55 in the 2004 sale catalogue.

A Paraphrase on the 145 Psalme
('Thy Glory Lord I would for ever raise')

First published in Greer & Hastings (1997), No. 16, pp. 175-6.

WhA 38

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of poems almost entirely by Anne Wharton (1659-85), 21 quarto leaves. Late 17th century.

Probably once owned by Lady Ann Coke. Among the manuscripts of the Coke family, Earls of Leicester, including collections of Sir Edward Coke (1552-1634), lawyer and politician.

Recorded in HMC, 9th Report (1883), Appendix, p. 371.

Edited from this MS in Greer & Hastings.

Part of ye 4th Chapter of Solomons Song
('My Sister, ah! my Spouse my hearts 'ore come')

Unpublished.

WhA 39

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of twenty-four poems by Anne Wharton and one by Edmund Waller, 100 pages (including 13 blank pages, plus 58 blank pages at the end), in contemporary red morocco gilt.

In a single neat possibly female hand, including headings or incipits only to seven further poems whose texts were not entered.

Late 17th-early 18th century.

Sotheby's, 28 November 1933, lot 557. Later owned by John R.B. Brett-Smith (1917-2003), publisher and bookseller. Sotheby's, 27 May 2004 (Brett-Smith sale), lot 608, to Freeman.

Facsimile of p. 55 in the 2004 sale catalogue.

Part of the 5th Chapter of Solomon Song
('My sister and my Spouse, I'm in ye grove')

Unpublished.

WhA 40

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of twenty-four poems by Anne Wharton and one by Edmund Waller, 100 pages (including 13 blank pages, plus 58 blank pages at the end), in contemporary red morocco gilt.

In a single neat possibly female hand, including headings or incipits only to seven further poems whose texts were not entered.

Late 17th-early 18th century.

Sotheby's, 28 November 1933, lot 557. Later owned by John R.B. Brett-Smith (1917-2003), publisher and bookseller. Sotheby's, 27 May 2004 (Brett-Smith sale), lot 608, to Freeman.

Facsimile of p. 55 in the 2004 sale catalogue.

Penelope to Ulysses
('Penelope this slow Epistle sends')

First published in Ovid's Epistles translated by Several Hands (London, 1712), pp. 160-9. Greer & Hastings, No. 5, pp. 132-7.

WhA 41

Copy, headed A Paraphrase on Ovids ist Epistle Penelope to Ulises.

In: A quarto volume of twenty-four poems by Anne Wharton and one by Edmund Waller, 100 pages (including 13 blank pages, plus 58 blank pages at the end), in contemporary red morocco gilt.

In a single neat possibly female hand, including headings or incipits only to seven further poems whose texts were not entered.

Late 17th-early 18th century.

Sotheby's, 28 November 1933, lot 557. Later owned by John R.B. Brett-Smith (1917-2003), publisher and bookseller. Sotheby's, 27 May 2004 (Brett-Smith sale), lot 608, to Freeman.

Facsimile of p. 55 in the 2004 sale catalogue.

Sapho to Phaon Englished out of Boileau
('Happy, who near you, sigh for you alone')

Unpublished.

WhA 42

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of twenty-four poems by Anne Wharton and one by Edmund Waller, 100 pages (including 13 blank pages, plus 58 blank pages at the end), in contemporary red morocco gilt.

In a single neat possibly female hand, including headings or incipits only to seven further poems whose texts were not entered.

Late 17th-early 18th century.

Sotheby's, 28 November 1933, lot 557. Later owned by John R.B. Brett-Smith (1917-2003), publisher and bookseller. Sotheby's, 27 May 2004 (Brett-Smith sale), lot 608, to Freeman.

Facsimile of p. 55 in the 2004 sale catalogue.

A Song
('How hardly I conceal'd my Tears?')

First published in A Collection of Poems by Several Hands (London, 1693), pp. 238-9. Greer & Hastings, p. 127.

WhA 43

Copy, as By Mrs Wharton.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, largely in one hand, with additions by others, written from both ends, material at the reverse end dated 1708-9, ii + 114 leaves, in 19th-century half-calf.

Inscribed (f. [iir]), probably by the compiler, Ex Libris Georgij Wright [b.1685/6] Sti Johannis Collegis Cantabrigiensis Alumni, Decimo quarto Junij. Annoq. Domini 1703.

c.1703-9.

Also inscribed (f.[iir]) Mrs Frances Wright 1708. A postal address on f. 95r (rev.) reads: Direct to Margtt Borrett att Mrs. Borretts In Kirkby=stephen Westmoorland p brough bag _ These.

Recorded in IELM, II.ii, as the Wright MS: WaE Δ 12.

Thoughts Occasioned by Solitude

Unpublished.

WhA 44

Copy of the title only.

In: A quarto volume of twenty-four poems by Anne Wharton and one by Edmund Waller, 100 pages (including 13 blank pages, plus 58 blank pages at the end), in contemporary red morocco gilt.

In a single neat possibly female hand, including headings or incipits only to seven further poems whose texts were not entered.

Late 17th-early 18th century.

Sotheby's, 28 November 1933, lot 557. Later owned by John R.B. Brett-Smith (1917-2003), publisher and bookseller. Sotheby's, 27 May 2004 (Brett-Smith sale), lot 608, to Freeman.

Facsimile of p. 55 in the 2004 sale catalogue.

Thoughts occasion'd by her retirement into the Countrey
('All fly the vnhappy & all would fly')

First published in A New Miscellany of Original Poems (London, 1701). Greer & Hastings, No. 13, pp. 166-8.

WhA 45

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of poems almost entirely by Anne Wharton (1659-85), 21 quarto leaves. Late 17th century.

Probably once owned by Lady Ann Coke. Among the manuscripts of the Coke family, Earls of Leicester, including collections of Sir Edward Coke (1552-1634), lawyer and politician.

Recorded in HMC, 9th Report (1883), Appendix, p. 371.

Edited from this MS in Greer & Hastings.

WhA 46

Copy, in one or more cursive hands, headed Madam Whartons verses / Thoughts occasioned by her Solitude, on three pages of a group of partly unopened sheets folded as nine quarto leaves, in a folder of unbound verse (at the top of the box).

In: A box of papers and commonplace books of the Cary family, including the Rev. Francis Henry Cary (1642-1712), rector of Brinkworth, Wiltshire.

This MS collated in Greer & Hastings.

To Doc: Burnett upon his retirement
('If darkest Shades could cloud so bright a Mind')

First published, as Upon the D. of Buckingham's Retirement: By Madame Wharton, Jan. 1683, in Miscellany Poems upon Several Occasions (London, 1692), pp. Greer & Hastings, No. 17, pp. 177-9.

WhA 47

Copy.

In: A folio volume principally of poems, the majority (at least 20) by Edmund Waller, some probably by members of his family, 73 unnumbered leaves, in calf gilt.

Including copies of various drafts, fragments and extracts, as well as poems by other writers such as Anne Wharton, Sir Charles Berkeley, Sir Thomas Higgons (including part of a play by him), Elizabeth Taylor (Lady Wythens, afterwards Lady Colepeper), Ephelia, George Granville, the Duke of Buckingham, Sir George Etherege, the Earl of Rochester, James Shirley, and Thomas Rymer, also extracts from Dryden and Davenant; almost entirely in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, with considerable variation of style; an apparently second, unidentified, hand copying verse and prose (Memoire…par le Sieur Lycelot…Le 9me de Decembre 1687 and Instructions to the Judges of Assize &c Lent 1687/8) on ff. [23r, 62r-7v, 70v]; two of these leaves ([65r and 70v]) docketed in a later hand (after 1713) The Handwriting of Dr Atterbury and Bishp Atterbury [meaning perhaps copied from Atterbury's writing (see WaE Δ 15)]; a draft letter addressed (as is clear from the content) to Catherine, Lady Ranelagh (1614-91), sister of the noble and learned…Mr [Robert] Boyle, on f. [16v], enclosing ffathers last verses [not specified], noting his reluctance to write anything for the forthcoming marriage of Princess Anne and Prince George of Denmark [which took place on 28 July 1684], and observing that he has now consecrated his remayning facullty in vers to devotion; a poem Of his voyage vp the river to vissett (beginning In my breast Eternall flames) on f. [71r] ascribed to Mrs M Waller (presumably Waller's second wife, Mary Bresse or Breaux, d. 1677); some scribbling and calculations on ff. 3r, 71v, 72v, 73v, a label on the spine erroneously identifying the volume as a compilation by Brian Fairfax (1637-1711).

c.1693-8.

Later owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1798-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9096.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Harvard MS: WaE Δ 6.

This MS collated in Greer & Hastings.

WhA 48

Copy of lines 47-53, untitled and here beginning But now alas he rules a giddy crowd.

In: An octavo miscellany, in English and Latin, in a single hand, 141 leaves (ff. 124v-41v blank), in contemporary calf. c.1690s.

Bought from P.J. and A.E. Dobell, in 1922, by Reginald L. Hine (1883-1949), solicitor, of Hitchin, Hertfordshire.

WhA 49

Copy, in the hand of one of Waller's daughters.

In: A sheaf of sixteen folio leaves of verse, in a single hand, disbound.

Among the papers of the Waller family.

This MS collated in Greer & Hastings.

WhA 50

Copy, in the hand of one of Waller's daughters.

In: A folio booklet of four leaves. c.1700.

This MS collated in Greer & Hastings.

WhA 51

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of twenty-four poems by Anne Wharton and one by Edmund Waller, 100 pages (including 13 blank pages, plus 58 blank pages at the end), in contemporary red morocco gilt.

In a single neat possibly female hand, including headings or incipits only to seven further poems whose texts were not entered.

Late 17th-early 18th century.

Sotheby's, 28 November 1933, lot 557. Later owned by John R.B. Brett-Smith (1917-2003), publisher and bookseller. Sotheby's, 27 May 2004 (Brett-Smith sale), lot 608, to Freeman.

Facsimile of p. 55 in the 2004 sale catalogue.

To Lady Anne Cooke

Unpublished.

WhA 52

Copy of the title only.

In: A quarto volume of twenty-four poems by Anne Wharton and one by Edmund Waller, 100 pages (including 13 blank pages, plus 58 blank pages at the end), in contemporary red morocco gilt.

In a single neat possibly female hand, including headings or incipits only to seven further poems whose texts were not entered.

Late 17th-early 18th century.

Sotheby's, 28 November 1933, lot 557. Later owned by John R.B. Brett-Smith (1917-2003), publisher and bookseller. Sotheby's, 27 May 2004 (Brett-Smith sale), lot 608, to Freeman.

Facsimile of p. 55 in the 2004 sale catalogue.

To Melpomene against Complaint
('In soft Complaints no longer ease I find')

First published in A Collection of Poems by Several Hands (London, 1693), pp. 245-7. Greer & Hastings, No. 3, pp. 129-30.

WhA 53

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of twenty-four poems by Anne Wharton and one by Edmund Waller, 100 pages (including 13 blank pages, plus 58 blank pages at the end), in contemporary red morocco gilt.

In a single neat possibly female hand, including headings or incipits only to seven further poems whose texts were not entered.

Late 17th-early 18th century.

Sotheby's, 28 November 1933, lot 557. Later owned by John R.B. Brett-Smith (1917-2003), publisher and bookseller. Sotheby's, 27 May 2004 (Brett-Smith sale), lot 608, to Freeman.

Facsimile of p. 55 in the 2004 sale catalogue.

To Mr. Waller
('Now I shall live indeed, not by my skill')

First published, in a 52-line version, in Poems by Several Hands (London, 1685), pp. 222-5. A 62-line version in The Gentleman's Magazine, Vol. 85, pt. i (June 1815), p. 493, and in Greer & Hastings, No. 19, pp. 182-3.

WhA 54

Copy.

In: A folio volume principally of poems, the majority (at least 20) by Edmund Waller, some probably by members of his family, 73 unnumbered leaves, in calf gilt.

Including copies of various drafts, fragments and extracts, as well as poems by other writers such as Anne Wharton, Sir Charles Berkeley, Sir Thomas Higgons (including part of a play by him), Elizabeth Taylor (Lady Wythens, afterwards Lady Colepeper), Ephelia, George Granville, the Duke of Buckingham, Sir George Etherege, the Earl of Rochester, James Shirley, and Thomas Rymer, also extracts from Dryden and Davenant; almost entirely in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, with considerable variation of style; an apparently second, unidentified, hand copying verse and prose (Memoire…par le Sieur Lycelot…Le 9me de Decembre 1687 and Instructions to the Judges of Assize &c Lent 1687/8) on ff. [23r, 62r-7v, 70v]; two of these leaves ([65r and 70v]) docketed in a later hand (after 1713) The Handwriting of Dr Atterbury and Bishp Atterbury [meaning perhaps copied from Atterbury's writing (see WaE Δ 15)]; a draft letter addressed (as is clear from the content) to Catherine, Lady Ranelagh (1614-91), sister of the noble and learned…Mr [Robert] Boyle, on f. [16v], enclosing ffathers last verses [not specified], noting his reluctance to write anything for the forthcoming marriage of Princess Anne and Prince George of Denmark [which took place on 28 July 1684], and observing that he has now consecrated his remayning facullty in vers to devotion; a poem Of his voyage vp the river to vissett (beginning In my breast Eternall flames) on f. [71r] ascribed to Mrs M Waller (presumably Waller's second wife, Mary Bresse or Breaux, d. 1677); some scribbling and calculations on ff. 3r, 71v, 72v, 73v, a label on the spine erroneously identifying the volume as a compilation by Brian Fairfax (1637-1711).

c.1693-8.

Later owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1798-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9096.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Harvard MS: WaE Δ 6.

This MS collated in Greer & Hastings.

WhA 55

Copy of a 58-line version.

In: A quarto volume of poems almost entirely by Anne Wharton (1659-85), 21 quarto leaves. Late 17th century.

Probably once owned by Lady Ann Coke. Among the manuscripts of the Coke family, Earls of Leicester, including collections of Sir Edward Coke (1552-1634), lawyer and politician.

Recorded in HMC, 9th Report (1883), Appendix, p. 371.

This MS collated in Greer & Hastings.

WhA 56

Copy, in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, headed To my ffather by Mrs Wharton.

In: A sheaf of sixteen folio leaves of verse, in a single hand, disbound.

Among the papers of the Waller family.

This MS collated in Greer & Hastings.

WhA 57

Copy, in the hand of one of Waller's daughters.

In: A folio booklet of four leaves. c.1700.

This MS collated in Greer & Hastings.

WhA 58

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of twenty-four poems by Anne Wharton and one by Edmund Waller, 100 pages (including 13 blank pages, plus 58 blank pages at the end), in contemporary red morocco gilt.

In a single neat possibly female hand, including headings or incipits only to seven further poems whose texts were not entered.

Late 17th-early 18th century.

Sotheby's, 28 November 1933, lot 557. Later owned by John R.B. Brett-Smith (1917-2003), publisher and bookseller. Sotheby's, 27 May 2004 (Brett-Smith sale), lot 608, to Freeman.

Facsimile of p. 55 in the 2004 sale catalogue.

To Mr. Wolesly
('To you, this Generous Task belongs alone')

First published in Lycidus (London, 1688), pp. 95-6. Greer & Hastings, No. 23, p. 189.

WhA 59

Copy, dated 1685.

In: A quarto composite volume chiefly of poems on affairs of state, largely in professional hands, iii + 242 leaves, in vellum boards.

Edited from this MS in Greer & Hastings.

WhA 60
Copy, in a professional hand, headed To Mr Wolseley: On his Preface to Valentinian, on pages 2-3 of two unbound conjugate folio leaves. Late 17th century.

This MS collated in Greer & Hastings.

WhA 61

Copy of the title only, here To Mr Woolsey on his Præface To Valentinian.

In: A quarto volume of twenty-four poems by Anne Wharton and one by Edmund Waller, 100 pages (including 13 blank pages, plus 58 blank pages at the end), in contemporary red morocco gilt.

In a single neat possibly female hand, including headings or incipits only to seven further poems whose texts were not entered.

Late 17th-early 18th century.

Sotheby's, 28 November 1933, lot 557. Later owned by John R.B. Brett-Smith (1917-2003), publisher and bookseller. Sotheby's, 27 May 2004 (Brett-Smith sale), lot 608, to Freeman.

Facsimile of p. 55 in the 2004 sale catalogue.

To Mrs. A. Behn, On what she Writ of The Earl of Rochester
('In pleasing Transport rap't, my Thoughts aspire')

First published in A Collection of Poems by Several Hands (London, 1693), pp. 242-4. Greer & Hastings, No. 8, p. 143.

WhA 62

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of twenty-four poems by Anne Wharton and one by Edmund Waller, 100 pages (including 13 blank pages, plus 58 blank pages at the end), in contemporary red morocco gilt.

In a single neat possibly female hand, including headings or incipits only to seven further poems whose texts were not entered.

Late 17th-early 18th century.

Sotheby's, 28 November 1933, lot 557. Later owned by John R.B. Brett-Smith (1917-2003), publisher and bookseller. Sotheby's, 27 May 2004 (Brett-Smith sale), lot 608, to Freeman.

Facsimile of p. 55 in the 2004 sale catalogue.

To Mrs Frances Beaviunt

Unpublished.

WhA 63

Copy of the title only.

In: A quarto volume of twenty-four poems by Anne Wharton and one by Edmund Waller, 100 pages (including 13 blank pages, plus 58 blank pages at the end), in contemporary red morocco gilt.

In a single neat possibly female hand, including headings or incipits only to seven further poems whose texts were not entered.

Late 17th-early 18th century.

Sotheby's, 28 November 1933, lot 557. Later owned by John R.B. Brett-Smith (1917-2003), publisher and bookseller. Sotheby's, 27 May 2004 (Brett-Smith sale), lot 608, to Freeman.

Facsimile of p. 55 in the 2004 sale catalogue.

To the Earle of Danby att Winchinden After his coming out of the Tower
('So rose the morning drest with Joyfull light')

Unpublished.

WhA 64

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of twenty-four poems by Anne Wharton and one by Edmund Waller, 100 pages (including 13 blank pages, plus 58 blank pages at the end), in contemporary red morocco gilt.

In a single neat possibly female hand, including headings or incipits only to seven further poems whose texts were not entered.

Late 17th-early 18th century.

Sotheby's, 28 November 1933, lot 557. Later owned by John R.B. Brett-Smith (1917-2003), publisher and bookseller. Sotheby's, 27 May 2004 (Brett-Smith sale), lot 608, to Freeman.

Facsimile of p. 55 in the 2004 sale catalogue.

To the Lady Ann Cooke
('Nine times the Spring return'd & with it brought')

First published in Greer & Hastings (1997), No. 12, p. 165.

WhA 65

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of poems almost entirely by Anne Wharton (1659-85), 21 quarto leaves. Late 17th century.

Probably once owned by Lady Ann Coke. Among the manuscripts of the Coke family, Earls of Leicester, including collections of Sir Edward Coke (1552-1634), lawyer and politician.

Recorded in HMC, 9th Report (1883), Appendix, p. 371.

Edited from this MS in Greer & Hastings.

Vnchangeable
('Preists preach & Poets teach us yt all harmes')

Unpublished.

WhA 66

Copy.

In: A quarto volume of twenty-four poems by Anne Wharton and one by Edmund Waller, 100 pages (including 13 blank pages, plus 58 blank pages at the end), in contemporary red morocco gilt.

In a single neat possibly female hand, including headings or incipits only to seven further poems whose texts were not entered.

Late 17th-early 18th century.

Sotheby's, 28 November 1933, lot 557. Later owned by John R.B. Brett-Smith (1917-2003), publisher and bookseller. Sotheby's, 27 May 2004 (Brett-Smith sale), lot 608, to Freeman.

Facsimile of p. 55 in the 2004 sale catalogue.

Verses on the Snuff of a Candle made in Sickness
('See there the Taper's dim, and doleful Light')

First published in The Gentleman's Journal (London, 1692), p. 2. Greer & Hastings, No. 24, p. 190.

WhA 67

Copy, as by Mrs Wharton, in a quarto verse miscellany (occupying ff. 84r-117v). Early 18th century.

In: A tall folio composite volume of verse and some prose, chiefly translations from Latin, in various hands and paper sizes, 133 leaves, mounted on guards, in half red morocco.

Volume XVIII of papers of the families of Browne, Mariett and West, of the manor of Alscot, in Preston-on-Stour, Gloucestershire.

Portions once owned by Henry Jackson (1586-1662), Hooker's first editor; by Anthony Wood (1632-95), Oxford antiquary; by Thomas Coxeter (1689-1747); and probably by James West, FRS, FSA, MP (1703-72), politician and antiquary.

This MS collated in Greer & Hastings.

Dramatic Works

Love's Martyr or Witt above Crowns A Tragedy

First published in Greer & Hastings (1997), pp. 193-282.

WhA 68
Copy, in an accomplished hand, with (f. 3r) a title-page Loves Martyr / or / Witt above Crowns / A Tragedy, by Mrs Anne Wharton... added in a later hand, 51 quarto leaves, in contemporary red morocco gilt.

Inscribed (f. 1v) Mary Howe, to whom the play is dedicated, the MS therefore evidently the author's presentation copy to her.

Late 17th century.

Bookplate of Horace Walpole (1717-97), fourth Earl of Orford, author, politician and patron. Strawberry Hill sale. Thomas Thorpe's sale catalogue, 1842, item 576. Afterwards owned by Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe (1781-1851), antiquary and collector. Purchased from W.H. Logan, 15 April 1871.

Edited from this MS in Greer & Hastings.

Letters

Letter(s)
*WhA 69

Autograph letter signed by Anne Wharton, to her husband Thomas Wharton, 22 March/1 April 1681.

In: A large quarto volume of letters etc., in various hands, 280 leaves.

Volume III of the collection of state letters etc. by Thomas Birch (1705-66), biographer and historian.

Edited in Greer & Hastings, pp. 67-8. Published earlier in A General Dictionary, Historical and Critical, ed. John Peter Bernard, et al., Volume X (London, 1741).

*WhA 70

Autograph letter signed by Anne Wharton, to her husband Thomas Wharton, 29 March 1681.

In: A large quarto volume of letters etc., in various hands, 280 leaves.

Volume III of the collection of state letters etc. by Thomas Birch (1705-66), biographer and historian.

Edited in Greer & Hastings, p. 68. Published earlier in A General Dictionary, Historical and Critical, ed. John Peter Bernard, et al., Volume X (London, 1741).

*WhA 71
Five autograph letters signed, to her husband Thomas Wharton, 4 and 20 April, 1 and 14 May, 1 July 1681. 1681.
*WhA 72
Autograph letter signed, to Sir Ralph Verney, 21 August 1683.

Edited in Greer & Hastings, p. 86.

*WhA 73
Autograph letter signed, to Sir Ralph Verney, 22 March 1684/5. 1685.

Edited in Greer & Hastings, p. 92.