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Anne Killigrew

1660–1685

Introduction

The poems of Anne Killigrew, which were notably commended by John Dryden, were posthumously published in 1686. No manuscript of any of them was known to survive until a manuscript of five of them came to light among the Evelyn papers in the British Library (KiA 1-5). Since no clear examples of her handwriting have yet come to light, it is impossible to verify the hand in this manuscript, but the versions clearly predate the printed texts and the neat rounded script may well be Killigrew's own formal hand.

Verse

First Epigram. Vpon being Contented with a Little ('We deem them moderate, but Enough implore')

First published in Poems (London, 1686), p. 15.

KiA 1 Late 17th century

Copy, in a neat rounded hand (? possibly autograph), headed 1 Epigram, on the first page of a pair of conjugate folio leaves.

First pub. in Poems (1686), p.

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.

The Fourth Epigram. On Galla ('Now liquid Streams by the fierce Gold do grow')

First published in Poems (London, 1686), p. 17.

KiA 2 Late 17th century

Copy, in a neat rounded hand (? possibly autograph), headed 4 Ep On Galla, on the second page of a pair of conjugate folio leaves.

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.

The Second Epigram On Billinda ('Wanton Bellinda loudly does complain')

First published in Poems (London, 1686), pp. 15-16.

KiA 3 Late 17th century

Copy, in a neat rounded hand (? possibly autograph), headed 2 Ep: / On Mamurra and here beginning Wanton Mamurra loudly does Complaine, on the first page of a pair of conjugate folio leaves.

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.

The Third Epigram. On an Atheist ('Posthumus boasts he does not Thunder fear')

First published in Poems (London, 1686), p. 16.

KiA 4 Late 17th century

Copy, in a neat rounded hand (? possibly autograph), headed 3 Ep: On a Concealed Atheist, on the first page of a pair of conjugate folio leaves.

First pub. in Poems (1686), p.

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.

To the Queen ('As those who pass the Alps do say')

First published in Poems (London, 1686), pp. 6-10.

KiA 5 Late 17th century

Copy, in a neat rounded hand (? possibly autograph), headed To the Queene, on the first two pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves.

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.

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