Folger Shakespeare Library
CELM

Anne Wharton

1659–1685

Introduction

Anne Wharton (née Lee) wrote a number of religious, meditative, and other poems, as well as a play. Most of these works remained unpublished in her lifetime, but a considerable number, including verses that elicited contemporary admiration, evidently had limited circulation in manuscripts among her social and literary circle. This circle included both her uncle, John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, and Edmund Waller (whose family papers contain several poems by her; see comments on their relationship in Edmund Waller, Introduction below), as well as the egregious Gilbert Burnet. Manuscript copies of some poems evidently circulated widely enough to be picked up by publishers for inclusion in various printed miscellanies, which appeared from the year of her death, 1685, until at least the third decade of the eighteenth century. No attempt, however, was made to gather and publish a collected edition until the 1990s.

Manuscripts

The early random publications, as well as copies of particular poems in scattered manuscript miscellanies, can, however, be supplemented by two notable manuscript anthologies of verse by Anne Wharton, which go some way to extending and consolidating her canon. At least one of these (The Earl of Leicester, Holkham Hall, MS 691) may well have been a presentation copy, as was certainly the formal manuscript of her play Love's Martyr (WhA 68), which, as she said in her dedication, never deserved nor was ever designed to be publick. The other manuscript volume of verse by her (Yale, Osborn MS b 408), which includes a number of her poems otherwise unknown, did not effectively come to light until 2004, postdating the publication of the Greer & Hastings edition. From watermark evidence it seems possible that this was a slightly later production, in a neat but probably non-professional hand (possibly a woman), by someone who perhaps had access to Wharton's papers but failed to copy them in full (sometimes supplying only titles), either because the copying task was abandoned or because the sources themselves were deficient.

Letters and Documents

Other surviving manuscripts by Wharton take the form of autograph letters by her, nine of which are currently recorded (WhA 69-73). These may be supplemented by the existing texts of a series of thirteen letters written to Wharton in 1682-83 (where dated) by Gilbert Burnet, some of them on literary matters. These are edited from printed sources in Greer & Hastings (1997), pp. 339-63.

Greer & Hastings also provide, in their lengthy prefatory biography of Wharton's unhappy life (pp. 1-109), references to a wealth of documentation relating to her, her family, and that of her louche, unfaithful husband. Not given entries below, these miscellaneous documents, in various libraries and record offices, include a number of letters by the Dowager Lady Rochester, mother of the poet John Wilmot, and by her agent, as well as other papers relating to the interminable family lawsuits and disputes which could do little to lift the frequently sick Anne Wharton's depressed spirits.

Abbreviations

Greer & Hastings
The Surviving Works of Anne Wharton, ed. G. Greer and S. Hastings (Stump Cross, 1997).

Verse

The Complaint

Unpublished.

WhA 1

Copy of the title only.

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.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 408 p. 75)
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.

This MS collated in Greer & Hastings.

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.

Harvard, other MSS (fMS Eng 602 f. [15r])
WhA 3

Copy of lines 1-33, headed On Knowledge.

This MS collated in Greer & Hastings.

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.

WhA 4

Copy of all 55 lines, headed The Despare.

This MS collated in Greer & Hastings.

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.

WhA 5

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

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

Among the papers of the Waller family.

Mr Richard Waller ([no shelfmark] ff. [7r-8r])
WhA 6

This MS collated in Greer & Hastings.

A folio booklet of four leaves.

c.1700
Mr Richard Waller ([no shelfmark] [unspecified page numbers])
WhA 7

Copy, headed The Dispaire.

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.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 408 pp. 71-3)
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.

Edited from this MS in Greer & Hastings.

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.

WhA 9

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

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.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 408 p. 59)
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.

This MS collated in Greer and Hastings.

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.

WhA 11

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Greer & Hastings.

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.

WhA 12

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

This MS collated in Greer & Hastings.

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

Among the papers of the Waller family.

Mr Richard Waller ([no shelfmark] [unspecified page numbers])
WhA 13

Copy.

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.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 408 pp. 55-8)
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 Late 17th century

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.

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.

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.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 408 pp. 53-4)
The inconstancy of Woman kind ('Whilst on the shore Aminta Lay')

Unpublished.

WhA 16

Copy.

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.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 408 p. 77)
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.

This MS collated in Greer & Hastings.

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.

Princeton (RTC01 No. 178 pp. 22-5)
WhA 18

Copy.

This MS collated in Greer & Hastings.

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.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 218 pp. 53-5)
WhA 19

Copy.

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.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 408 pp. 1-19)
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.

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.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 408 p. 63)
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.

This MS collated in Greer & Hastings.

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.

WhA 22

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

This MS collated in Greer & Hastings.

A folio booklet of four leaves.

c.1700
Mr Richard Waller ([no shelfmark] f. [3r])
WhA 23

Copy.

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.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 408 p. 74)
A Paraphrase on ye 47th Chapter of Isaiah ('Downe haughty Virgin down even to the earth')
WhA 24

Copy.

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.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 408 pp. 21-3)
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.

This MS collated in Greer & Hastings.

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.

Harvard, other MSS (fMS Eng 602 f. [16r])
WhA 26

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Greer & Hastings.

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.

WhA 27

Copy.

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.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 408 pp. 25-6)
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.

Edited from this MS in Greer & Hastings.

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.

WhA 29

Copy.

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.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 408 pp. 89-91)
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.

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.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 408 pp. 33-5)
A Paraphrase on ye 4 Psalm ('To thee my prayers as heretofore ascend')

Unpublished.

WhA 31

Copy.

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.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 408 p. 36)
A Paraphrase on ye 36 Psalm ('My boding heart discouers to my sight')

Unpublished.

WhA 32

Copy.

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.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 408 pp. 37-8)
A Paraphrase on ye 37 Psalm ('Wrach not thy peacfull heart with envious pain')

Unpublished.

WhA 33

Copy.

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.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 408 pp. 39-42)
A Paraphrase on ye 45th Psalm ('With pregnant Thought my labouring breast is fyr'd')

Unpublished.

WhA 34

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.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 408 pp. 43-5)
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 Late 17th century

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.

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.

This MS collated in Greer & Hastings.

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.

WhA 37

Copy.

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.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 408 pp. 46-8)
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.

Edited from this MS in Greer & Hastings.

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.

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

Unpublished.

WhA 39

Copy.

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.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 408 p. 49)
Part of the 5th Chapter of Solomon Song ('My sister and my Spouse, I'm in ye grove')

Unpublished.

WhA 40

Copy.

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.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 408 pp. 49-50)
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.

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.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 408 pp. 93-100)
Sapho to Phaon Englished out of Boileau ('Happy, who near you, sigh for you alone')

Unpublished.

WhA 42

Copy.

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.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 408 p. 92)
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.

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.

Edinburgh University Library (MS Dc. 3. 76 f. 54v)
Thoughts Occasioned by Solitude

Unpublished.

WhA 44

Copy of the title only.

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.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 408 p. 67)
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.

Edited from this MS in Greer & Hastings.

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.

WhA 46 Late 17th century

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).

This MS collated in Greer & Hastings.

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

National Archives, Kew (C 104/63 [unnumbered item])
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.

This MS collated in Greer & Hastings.

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.

Harvard, other MSS (fMS Eng 602 ff. [12v-13v])
WhA 48

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

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.

This MS collated in Greer & Hastings.

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

Among the papers of the Waller family.

Mr Richard Waller ([no shelfmark] [unspecified page numbers])
WhA 50

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

This MS collated in Greer & Hastings.

A folio booklet of four leaves.

c.1700
Mr Richard Waller ([no shelfmark] [unspecified page numbers])
WhA 51

Copy.

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.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 408 pp. 81-3)
To Lady Anne Cooke

Unpublished.

WhA 52

Copy of the title only.

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.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 408 p. 84)
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.

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.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 408 pp. 65-6)
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.

This MS collated in Greer & Hastings.

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.

Harvard, other MSS (fMS Eng 602 ff. [14r-15r])
WhA 55

Copy of a 58-line version.

This MS collated in Greer & Hastings.

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.

The Earl of Leicester, Holkham Hall (MS 691 [unspecified page numbers])
WhA 56

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

This MS collated in Greer & Hastings.

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

Among the papers of the Waller family.

Mr Richard Waller ([no shelfmark] ff. [6v-7r])
WhA 57

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

This MS collated in Greer & Hastings.

A folio booklet of four leaves.

c.1700
Mr Richard Waller ([no shelfmark] [unspecified page numbers])
WhA 58

Copy.

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.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 408 pp. 31-2)
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 61

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

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.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 408 p. 85)
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.

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.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 408 p. 80)
To Mrs Frances Beaviunt

Unpublished.

WhA 63

Copy of the title only.

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.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 408 p. 86)
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.

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.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 408 p. 79)
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.

Edited from this MS in Greer & Hastings.

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.

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

Unpublished.

WhA 66

Copy.

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.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 408 p. 76)
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.

This MS collated in Greer & Hastings.

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.

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 1681
Autograph

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

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).

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.

*WhA 70
Autograph

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

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).

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.

*WhA 71
Autograph

Five autograph letters signed, to her husband Thomas Wharton, 4 and 20 April, 1 and 14 May, 1 July 1681.

1681
Cumbria Archives, Carlisle (DLons/L1/5/stray letters/Box 133)

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