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Anne Bradstreet

1612/13–1672

Introduction

Printed Verse

Anne Bradstreet, who, as a teenager, emigrated from England to America with her Puritan family in 1630, has been traditionally regarded as New England's first original poet, male or female. A collection of her poems was first published, allegedly without her consent, as The Tenth Muse Lately sprung up in America, Or Severall Poems, compiled with great variety of Wit and learning … By a Gentlewoman in those parts (London, 1650). In an address to the reader apparently by her brother-in-law John Woodbridge the edition is justified by reference to the imperfect manuscripts of the poems then allegedly in circulation. Bradstreet herself revised and augmented the collection for an authorized second edition, published posthumously in Boston, 1678. For a discussion of these volumes in the context of the early colonial book trade, see Pattie Cowell, The Early Distribution of Anne Bradstreet's Poems, in Critical Essays on Anne Bradstreet, ed. Pattie Cowell and Ann Stanford (Boston, 1983), pp. 270-9.

No examples of the supposedly circulated early manuscripts of her poems are known, and, as Bradstreet herself declared, her own papers fell a prey to th'raging fire which destroyed their home in Andover, including the family library of 800 books, in 1666.

The Andover Manuscript

One major manuscript produced by Bradstreet does, however, survive: the so called Andover MS, now on deposit at Harvard (MS Am 1007.1). This notebook, containing often intimate lyrical and meditative poems, chiefly about her family life, was prepared for, and subsequently used by, members of her family. Including her son Simon's transcripts of poems from yet another (now lost) Book left by my hond & dear mother to her children & found among some papers after her Death, as well as one poem copied by him ovt of a loose Paper, this notebook expands the corpus of her works significantly. A neat transcript of it (Harvard, MS Am 1007) was made evidently by her daughter Sarah. Substantial extracts from the notebook were first printed by William Ives Budington in a series of contributions to the Massachusetts Sabbath School Society's magazine The Congregational Visiter (Boston, 1844) and in his The History of the First Church, Charlestown (Boston, 1845). The full text of Anne Bradstreet's writings in the notebook was first published in Ellis's edition (1867), and obviously this manuscript is the copy-text for all subsequent editions of those particular writings.

Abbreviations

Ellis
The Works of Anne Bradstreet in Prose and Verse, ed. John Harvard Ellis (Gloucester, Mass., 1867; reprinted 1932).
Hensley
The Works of Anne Bradstreet, ed. Jeannine Hensley (Cambridge, Mass., & London, 1967; reprinted 1981).
McElrath & Robb
The Complete Works of Anne Bradstreet, ed. Joseph R. McElrath, Jr and Allan P. Robb (Boston, 1981).

Verse

'As spring the winter doth succeed'

Ellis, pp. 22-3. Hensley, p. 256. McElrath & Robb, pp. 226-7.

BdA 1

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

Edited from this MS by all editors.

A partly autograph octavo notebook of Anne Bradstreet, 74 pages, including a tipped-in leaf (plus 24 blank pages after p. [72]), in contemporary calf with remains of metal clasps.

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).

c.1664-72 [and additions c.1720s]

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 Saml. Bradstreet of the 7th Generation from the author 1849.

Harvard, other MSS (MS Am 1007.1 p. 56)
BdA 2

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

A transcript of the Andover MS of works by Anne Bradstreet (Harvard MS Am 1007.1), including her son Simon's entries there, 100 octavo pages (plus 4 blank pages), in cardboard wrappers.

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

c.1670s

Donated in 1934 by The Manning Association.

Harvard, other MSS (MS Am 1007 pp. [76-7])
'As weary pilgrim, now at rest'

Ellis, pp. 42-4. Hensley, pp. 294-5. McElrath & Robb, pp. 210-11.

*BdA 3
Autograph

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

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.

A partly autograph octavo notebook of Anne Bradstreet, 74 pages, including a tipped-in leaf (plus 24 blank pages after p. [72]), in contemporary calf with remains of metal clasps.

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).

c.1664-72 [and additions c.1720s]

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 Saml. Bradstreet of the 7th Generation from the author 1849.

Harvard, other MSS (MS Am 1007.1 pp. [97-8])
BdA 4

Copy by Sarah Bradstreet, headed A Pilgrim.

A transcript of the Andover MS of works by Anne Bradstreet (Harvard MS Am 1007.1), including her son Simon's entries there, 100 octavo pages (plus 4 blank pages), in cardboard wrappers.

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

c.1670s

Donated in 1934 by The Manning Association.

Harvard, other MSS (MS Am 1007 pp. [98-100])
'By night when others soundly slept'

Ellis, p. 11. Hensley, p. 246. McElrath & Robb, p. 220.

BdA 5

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

Edited from this MS by all editors.

A partly autograph octavo notebook of Anne Bradstreet, 74 pages, including a tipped-in leaf (plus 24 blank pages after p. [72]), in contemporary calf with remains of metal clasps.

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).

c.1664-72 [and additions c.1720s]

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 Saml. Bradstreet of the 7th Generation from the author 1849.

Harvard, other MSS (MS Am 1007.1 p. 49)
BdA 6

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

A transcript of the Andover MS of works by Anne Bradstreet (Harvard MS Am 1007.1), including her son Simon's entries there, 100 octavo pages (plus 4 blank pages), in cardboard wrappers.

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

c.1670s

Donated in 1934 by The Manning Association.

Harvard, other MSS (MS Am 1007 pp. [61-2])
Deliverc from a fitt of ffainting ('Worthy art Thou o Ld of praise')

Ellis, p. 15. Hensley, p. 249.

BdA 7

Copy by Simon Bradstreet.

Edited from this MS by all editors.

A partly autograph octavo notebook of Anne Bradstreet, 74 pages, including a tipped-in leaf (plus 24 blank pages after p. [72]), in contemporary calf with remains of metal clasps.

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).

c.1664-72 [and additions c.1720s]

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 Saml. Bradstreet of the 7th Generation from the author 1849.

Harvard, other MSS (MS Am 1007.1 p. 51)
BdA 8

Copy by Sarah Bradstreet.

A transcript of the Andover MS of works by Anne Bradstreet (Harvard MS Am 1007.1), including her son Simon's entries there, 100 octavo pages (plus 4 blank pages), in cardboard wrappers.

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

c.1670s

Donated in 1934 by The Manning Association.

Harvard, other MSS (MS Am 1007 pp. [66-7])
For Deliverc from a feaver ('When Sorrowes had begyrt me rovnd')

Ellis, pp. 12-13. Hensley, p. 247. McElrath & Robb, pp. 220-1.

BdA 9

Copy by Simon Bradstreet.

Edited from this MS by all editors.

A partly autograph octavo notebook of Anne Bradstreet, 74 pages, including a tipped-in leaf (plus 24 blank pages after p. [72]), in contemporary calf with remains of metal clasps.

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).

c.1664-72 [and additions c.1720s]

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 Saml. Bradstreet of the 7th Generation from the author 1849.

Harvard, other MSS (MS Am 1007.1 pp. 49-50)
BdA 10

Copy by Sarah Bradstreet.

A transcript of the Andover MS of works by Anne Bradstreet (Harvard MS Am 1007.1), including her son Simon's entries there, 100 octavo pages (plus 4 blank pages), in cardboard wrappers.

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

c.1670s

Donated in 1934 by The Manning Association.

Harvard, other MSS (MS Am 1007 pp. [62-4])
For the restoration of my dear Husband from a burning Ague. June 1661 ('When feares and sorrowes me besett')

Ellis, p. 27. Hensley, p. 261. McElrath & Robb, pp. 229-30.

BdA 11

Copy by Simon Bradstreet.

Edited from this MS by all editors.

A partly autograph octavo notebook of Anne Bradstreet, 74 pages, including a tipped-in leaf (plus 24 blank pages after p. [72]), in contemporary calf with remains of metal clasps.

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).

c.1664-72 [and additions c.1720s]

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 Saml. Bradstreet of the 7th Generation from the author 1849.

Harvard, other MSS (MS Am 1007.1 p. 59)
BdA 12

Copy by Sarah Bradstreet.

A transcript of the Andover MS of works by Anne Bradstreet (Harvard MS Am 1007.1), including her son Simon's entries there, 100 octavo pages (plus 4 blank pages), in cardboard wrappers.

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

c.1670s

Donated in 1934 by The Manning Association.

Harvard, other MSS (MS Am 1007 pp. [82-3])
From another sore fitt. etc. ('In my distresse I sovght ye Lord')

Ellis, pp. 13-14. Hensley, p. 248. McElrath & Robb, pp. 221-2.

BdA 13

Copy by Simon Bradstreet.

Edited from this MS by all editors.

A partly autograph octavo notebook of Anne Bradstreet, 74 pages, including a tipped-in leaf (plus 24 blank pages after p. [72]), in contemporary calf with remains of metal clasps.

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).

c.1664-72 [and additions c.1720s]

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 Saml. Bradstreet of the 7th Generation from the author 1849.

Harvard, other MSS (MS Am 1007.1 pp. 50-1)
BdA 14

Copy by Sarah Bradstreet.

A transcript of the Andover MS of works by Anne Bradstreet (Harvard MS Am 1007.1), including her son Simon's entries there, 100 octavo pages (plus 4 blank pages), in cardboard wrappers.

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

c.1670s

Donated in 1934 by The Manning Association.

Harvard, other MSS (MS Am 1007 pp. [64-6])
Here followes some verses vpon ye burning of or house, July 10th. 1666. Copyed ovt of a loose Paper. ('In silent night when rest I took')

Ellis, pp. 40-2. Hensley, pp. 292-3. McElrath & Robb, pp. 236-7.

BdA 15

Copy by Simon Bradstreet.

Edited from this MS by all editors.

A partly autograph octavo notebook of Anne Bradstreet, 74 pages, including a tipped-in leaf (plus 24 blank pages after p. [72]), in contemporary calf with remains of metal clasps.

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).

c.1664-72 [and additions c.1720s]

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 Saml. Bradstreet of the 7th Generation from the author 1849.

Harvard, other MSS (MS Am 1007.1 pp. 66-7)
BdA 16

Copy by Sarah Bradstreet.

A transcript of the Andover MS of works by Anne Bradstreet (Harvard MS Am 1007.1), including her son Simon's entries there, 100 octavo pages (plus 4 blank pages), in cardboard wrappers.

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

c.1670s

Donated in 1934 by The Manning Association.

Harvard, other MSS (MS Am 1007 pp. [95-7])
In my Solitary houres in my dear husband his Absence ('O Lord thou hear'st my dayly moan')

Ellis, pp. 34-7. Hensley, pp. 267-8. McElrath & Robb, pp. 233-5.

BdA 17

Copy by Simon Bradstreet.

Edited from this MS by all editors.

A partly autograph octavo notebook of Anne Bradstreet, 74 pages, including a tipped-in leaf (plus 24 blank pages after p. [72]), in contemporary calf with remains of metal clasps.

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).

c.1664-72 [and additions c.1720s]

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 Saml. Bradstreet of the 7th Generation from the author 1849.

Harvard, other MSS (MS Am 1007.1 pp. 63-4)
BdA 18

Copy by Sarah Bradstreet.

A transcript of the Andover MS of works by Anne Bradstreet (Harvard MS Am 1007.1), including her son Simon's entries there, 100 octavo pages (plus 4 blank pages), in cardboard wrappers.

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

c.1670s

Donated in 1934 by The Manning Association.

Harvard, other MSS (MS Am 1007 pp. [89-92])
In thankfull acknowledgmt for ye lrs rec'd. from my husband ovt of England ('O Thou that hear'st ye prayers of Thine')

Ellis, pp. 37-8. Hensley, p. 269. McElrath & Robb, p. 235.

BdA 19

Copy by Simon Bradstreet.

Edited from this MS by all editors.

A partly autograph octavo notebook of Anne Bradstreet, 74 pages, including a tipped-in leaf (plus 24 blank pages after p. [72]), in contemporary calf with remains of metal clasps.

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).

c.1664-72 [and additions c.1720s]

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 Saml. Bradstreet of the 7th Generation from the author 1849.

Harvard, other MSS (MS Am 1007.1 pp. 64-5)
BdA 20

Copy by Sarah Bradstreet.

A transcript of the Andover MS of works by Anne Bradstreet (Harvard MS Am 1007.1), including her son Simon's entries there, 100 octavo pages (plus 4 blank pages), in cardboard wrappers.

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

c.1670s

Donated in 1934 by The Manning Association.

Harvard, other MSS (MS Am 1007 pp.[92-3])
In thankfull Remembrc for my dear husbands safe Arrivall. Sept. 3. 1662 ('What shall I render to thy Name')

Ellis, pp. 38-9. Hensley, p. 270. McElrath & Robb, pp. 235-6.

BdA 21

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

Edited from this MS by all editors.

A partly autograph octavo notebook of Anne Bradstreet, 74 pages, including a tipped-in leaf (plus 24 blank pages after p. [72]), in contemporary calf with remains of metal clasps.

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).

c.1664-72 [and additions c.1720s]

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 Saml. Bradstreet of the 7th Generation from the author 1849.

Harvard, other MSS (MS Am 1007.1 pp. 65-6)
BdA 22

Copy by Sarah Bradstreet.

A transcript of the Andover MS of works by Anne Bradstreet (Harvard MS Am 1007.1), including her son Simon's entries there, 100 octavo pages (plus 4 blank pages), in cardboard wrappers.

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

c.1670s

Donated in 1934 by The Manning Association.

Harvard, other MSS (MS Am 1007 pp. [93-4])
'My Soul rejoice thou in thy God'

Ellis, pp. 18-19. Hensley, p. 253. McElrath & Robb, pp. 224-5.

BdA 23

Copy by Simon Bradstreet, untitled.

Edited from this MS by all editors.

A partly autograph octavo notebook of Anne Bradstreet, 74 pages, including a tipped-in leaf (plus 24 blank pages after p. [72]), in contemporary calf with remains of metal clasps.

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).

c.1664-72 [and additions c.1720s]

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 Saml. Bradstreet of the 7th Generation from the author 1849.

Harvard, other MSS (MS Am 1007.1 pp. 53-4)
BdA 24

Copy by Sarah Bradstreet.

A transcript of the Andover MS of works by Anne Bradstreet (Harvard MS Am 1007.1), including her son Simon's entries there, 100 octavo pages (plus 4 blank pages), in cardboard wrappers.

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

c.1670s

Donated in 1934 by The Manning Association.

Harvard, other MSS (MS Am 1007 pp. [72-3])
'My thankfull heart wth glorying Tongve'

Ellis, p. 26. Hensley, pp. 259-60. McElrath & Robb, pp. 228-9.

BdA 25

Copy by Simon Bradstreet, untitled.

Edited from this MS by all editors.

A partly autograph octavo notebook of Anne Bradstreet, 74 pages, including a tipped-in leaf (plus 24 blank pages after p. [72]), in contemporary calf with remains of metal clasps.

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).

c.1664-72 [and additions c.1720s]

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 Saml. Bradstreet of the 7th Generation from the author 1849.

Harvard, other MSS (MS Am 1007.1 pp. 58-9)
BdA 26

Copy by Sarah Bradstreet.

A transcript of the Andover MS of works by Anne Bradstreet (Harvard MS Am 1007.1), including her son Simon's entries there, 100 octavo pages (plus 4 blank pages), in cardboard wrappers.

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

c.1670s

Donated in 1934 by The Manning Association.

Harvard, other MSS (MS Am 1007 pp. [80-1])
On my Sons Return out of England. July. 17. 1661 ('All praise to him who hath now rurn'd')

Ellis, pp. 28-31. Hensley, pp. 263-4. McElrath & Robb, pp. 230-1.

BdA 27

Copy by Simon Bradstreet.

Edited from this MS by all editors.

A partly autograph octavo notebook of Anne Bradstreet, 74 pages, including a tipped-in leaf (plus 24 blank pages after p. [72]), in contemporary calf with remains of metal clasps.

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).

c.1664-72 [and additions c.1720s]

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 Saml. Bradstreet of the 7th Generation from the author 1849.

Harvard, other MSS (MS Am 1007.1 pp. 60-1)
BdA 28

Copy by Sarah Bradstreet.

A transcript of the Andover MS of works by Anne Bradstreet (Harvard MS Am 1007.1), including her son Simon's entries there, 100 octavo pages (plus 4 blank pages), in cardboard wrappers.

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

c.1670s

Donated in 1934 by The Manning Association.

Harvard, other MSS (MS Am 1007 pp. [84-6])
To my dear children ('This Book by Any yet vnread')

Ellis, p. 3. Hensley, p. 240. McElrath & Robb, p. 215.

BdA 29

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

Edited from this MS by all editors.

A partly autograph octavo notebook of Anne Bradstreet, 74 pages, including a tipped-in leaf (plus 24 blank pages after p. [72]), in contemporary calf with remains of metal clasps.

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).

c.1664-72 [and additions c.1720s]

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 Saml. Bradstreet of the 7th Generation from the author 1849.

Harvard, other MSS (MS Am 1007.1 pp. 43-8)
BdA 30

Copy by Sarah Bradstreet.

A transcript of the Andover MS of works by Anne Bradstreet (Harvard MS Am 1007.1), including her son Simon's entries there, 100 octavo pages (plus 4 blank pages), in cardboard wrappers.

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

c.1670s

Donated in 1934 by The Manning Association.

Harvard, other MSS (MS Am 1007 p. [47])
Vpon my Daughter Hannah Wiggin her recouery from a dangerous feaver ('Bles't bee thy Name who did'st restore')

Ellis, p. 28. Hensley, p. 262. McElrath & Robb, p. 230.

BdA 31

Copy by Simon Bradstreet.

Edited from this MS by all editors.

A partly autograph octavo notebook of Anne Bradstreet, 74 pages, including a tipped-in leaf (plus 24 blank pages after p. [72]), in contemporary calf with remains of metal clasps.

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).

c.1664-72 [and additions c.1720s]

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 Saml. Bradstreet of the 7th Generation from the author 1849.

Harvard, other MSS (MS Am 1007.1 p. 60)
BdA 32

Copy by Sarah Bradstreet.

A transcript of the Andover MS of works by Anne Bradstreet (Harvard MS Am 1007.1), including her son Simon's entries there, 100 octavo pages (plus 4 blank pages), in cardboard wrappers.

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

c.1670s

Donated in 1934 by The Manning Association.

Harvard, other MSS (MS Am 1007 p. [83])
Vpon my dear & loving husband his goeing into England. Jan. 16. 1661 ('O thov most high who rulest All')

Ellis, pp. 32-4. Hensley, pp. 265-6. McElrath & Robb, pp. 232-3.

BdA 33

Copy by Simon Bradstreet.

Edited from this MS by all editors.

A partly autograph octavo notebook of Anne Bradstreet, 74 pages, including a tipped-in leaf (plus 24 blank pages after p. [72]), in contemporary calf with remains of metal clasps.

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).

c.1664-72 [and additions c.1720s]

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 Saml. Bradstreet of the 7th Generation from the author 1849.

Harvard, other MSS (MS Am 1007.1 pp. 61-3)
BdA 34

Copy by Sarah Bradstreet.

A transcript of the Andover MS of works by Anne Bradstreet (Harvard MS Am 1007.1), including her son Simon's entries there, 100 octavo pages (plus 4 blank pages), in cardboard wrappers.

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

c.1670s

Donated in 1934 by The Manning Association.

Harvard, other MSS (MS Am 1007 pp. [86-9])
Vpon my Son Samuel his goeing for England Novem. 6. 1657 ('Thou mighty God of Sea and Land')

Ellis, pp. 24-5. Hensley, p. 258. McElrath & Robb, p. 228.

BdA 35

Copy by Simon Bradstreet.

Edited from this MS by all editors.

A partly autograph octavo notebook of Anne Bradstreet, 74 pages, including a tipped-in leaf (plus 24 blank pages after p. [72]), in contemporary calf with remains of metal clasps.

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).

c.1664-72 [and additions c.1720s]

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 Saml. Bradstreet of the 7th Generation from the author 1849.

Harvard, other MSS (MS Am 1007.1 pp. 57-8)
BdA 36

Copy by Sarah Bradstreet.

A transcript of the Andover MS of works by Anne Bradstreet (Harvard MS Am 1007.1), including her son Simon's entries there, 100 octavo pages (plus 4 blank pages), in cardboard wrappers.

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

c.1670s

Donated in 1934 by The Manning Association.

Harvard, other MSS (MS Am 1007 pp. [79-80])
'What God is like to him I serve'

Ellis, pp. 17-18. Hensley, pp. 251-2. McElrath & Robb, p. 224.

BdA 37

Copy by Simon Bradstreet, untitled.

Edited from this MS by all editors.

A partly autograph octavo notebook of Anne Bradstreet, 74 pages, including a tipped-in leaf (plus 24 blank pages after p. [72]), in contemporary calf with remains of metal clasps.

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).

c.1664-72 [and additions c.1720s]

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 Saml. Bradstreet of the 7th Generation from the author 1849.

Harvard, other MSS (MS Am 1007.1 p. 53)
BdA 38

Copy by Sarah Bradstreet.

A transcript of the Andover MS of works by Anne Bradstreet (Harvard MS Am 1007.1), including her son Simon's entries there, 100 octavo pages (plus 4 blank pages), in cardboard wrappers.

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

c.1670s

Donated in 1934 by The Manning Association.

Harvard, other MSS (MS Am 1007 pp. [70-2])

Prose

For my deare sonne Simon Bradstreet

Dedication, beginning Parents perpetuate their liues in their posterity..., dated 20 March 1664. Ellis, p. 47. Hensley, p. 271. McElrath & Robb, p. 195.

*BdA 39
Autograph

Autograph.

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

A partly autograph octavo notebook of Anne Bradstreet, 74 pages, including a tipped-in leaf (plus 24 blank pages after p. [72]), in contemporary calf with remains of metal clasps.

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).

c.1664-72 [and additions c.1720s]

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 Saml. Bradstreet of the 7th Generation from the author 1849.

Harvard, other MSS (MS Am 1007.1 pp. 1-2)
BdA 40 c.1720s

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.

Edited from this MS in Ellis, p. 74.

A partly autograph octavo notebook of Anne Bradstreet, 74 pages, including a tipped-in leaf (plus 24 blank pages after p. [72]), in contemporary calf with remains of metal clasps.

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).

c.1664-72 [and additions c.1720s]

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 Saml. Bradstreet of the 7th Generation from the author 1849.

Harvard, other MSS (MS Am 1007.1 pp. 69-70)
*BdA 41
Autograph

Copy by Sarah Bradstreet.

A transcript of the Andover MS of works by Anne Bradstreet (Harvard MS Am 1007.1), including her son Simon's entries there, 100 octavo pages (plus 4 blank pages), in cardboard wrappers.

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

c.1670s

Donated in 1934 by The Manning Association.

Harvard, other MSS (MS Am 1007 pp. [1-2])
Meditations Diuine and morall

77 prose meditations. Ellis, pp. 48-73. Hensley, pp. 272-91. McElrath & Robb, pp. 195-209.

*BdA 42
Autograph

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

Edited from this MS by all editors.

A partly autograph octavo notebook of Anne Bradstreet, 74 pages, including a tipped-in leaf (plus 24 blank pages after p. [72]), in contemporary calf with remains of metal clasps.

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).

c.1664-72 [and additions c.1720s]

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 Saml. Bradstreet of the 7th Generation from the author 1849.

Harvard, other MSS (MS Am 1007.1 pp. 3-41)
*BdA 43
Autograph

Copy by Sarah Bradstreet.

A transcript of the Andover MS of works by Anne Bradstreet (Harvard MS Am 1007.1), including her son Simon's entries there, 100 octavo pages (plus 4 blank pages), in cardboard wrappers.

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

c.1670s

Donated in 1934 by The Manning Association.

Harvard, other MSS (MS Am 1007 pp. [2-47])
BdA 43.5 c.1720s

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....

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

A partly autograph octavo notebook of Anne Bradstreet, 74 pages, including a tipped-in leaf (plus 24 blank pages after p. [72]), in contemporary calf with remains of metal clasps.

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).

c.1664-72 [and additions c.1720s]

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 Saml. Bradstreet of the 7th Generation from the author 1849.

Harvard, other MSS (MS Am 1007.1 pp. 71-2)
Meditations when my Soul hath been refreshed wth the Consolations wch the world knowes not

Entries in prose and verse, beginning Lord, why should I doubt any more wn thov hast given me Such assured Pledges of thy Loue...., and including prose meditations dated 8 July 1656, 28 August 1656, 11 May 1657, 30 September 1657, and 11 May 1661.

Ellis, pp. 16-39 (including verse. Prose on pp. 17, 20-6). Hensley, pp. 250-70 (including verse. Prose on pp. 250-1, 254-5, 257, 259). McElrath & Robb, pp. 223-9.

For verse, see BdA 1.

BdA 44

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

Edited from this MS by all editors.

A partly autograph octavo notebook of Anne Bradstreet, 74 pages, including a tipped-in leaf (plus 24 blank pages after p. [72]), in contemporary calf with remains of metal clasps.

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).

c.1664-72 [and additions c.1720s]

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 Saml. Bradstreet of the 7th Generation from the author 1849.

Harvard, other MSS (MS Am 1007.1 pp. 51-66)
BdA 45

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

A transcript of the Andover MS of works by Anne Bradstreet (Harvard MS Am 1007.1), including her son Simon's entries there, 100 octavo pages (plus 4 blank pages), in cardboard wrappers.

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

c.1670s

Donated in 1934 by The Manning Association.

Harvard, other MSS (MS Am 1007 pp. [67-94])
To my dear children

A prose address beginning My dear children./ I knowing by experc . yt ye exhortats. of parents take most effect wn ye speakers leaue to speak.... Ellis, pp. 3-10. Hensley, pp. 240-5. McElrath & Robb, pp. 215-19.

BdA 46

Copy by Sarah Bradstreet.

A transcript of the Andover MS of works by Anne Bradstreet (Harvard MS Am 1007.1), including her son Simon's entries there, 100 octavo pages (plus 4 blank pages), in cardboard wrappers.

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

c.1670s

Donated in 1934 by The Manning Association.

Harvard, other MSS (MS Am 1007 pp. [48-61])

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