Mary, Lady Carey

Verse and Prose

Meditations and Poetry

Selectively edited in Meditations from the Note Book of Mary Carey 1649-1657, ed. Francis Meynell (Westminster, 1918), and in Kissing the Rod, ed. Germaine Greer et al. (New York, 1988), pp. 156-61.

*CaM 1
Autograph MS.

Selectively edited from this MS in Meynell's edition (1918) and in Kissing the Rod (1988).

1653-7.

In the possession of the Meynell family. Recorded in the online Perdita Project as seen by Faith Lanum in 2001.

CaM 2

Copy, in Charles Hutton's hand, headed Herein is contained my Lady Carey's Meditations, & Poetry, comprising a dedicatory epistle to her second husband George Payler, a religious dialogue and meditations, and verse, chiefly on the deaths of her children, including (f. 95r) an elegy by Payler, subscribed (f. 117v) January, 12th: 1657. saith Maria Carey always in Christ happy.

In: A compilation of two sets of works, in the hand of Charles Hutton, prepared as a presentation MS, 166 octavo leaves (plus blanks).

Comprising Lady Carey's Meditations, & Poetry (ff. 1r-117v) and works by and about Thomas Lord Fairfax. (ff. 118r-66v).

1681.

Recorded in HMC, 5th Report (1876), p. 40, and in HMC, 55 (1901-14), I, 15. Selected extracts from this MS by editors. Also described in the online Perdita Project.