Verse and Prose
Rhapsodical Meditations and Visions [Volume I]
Unpublished.
BtA 1
MS, in at least two small cursive hands, entitled ‘Rhapsodical meditations and visions by Mrs Ann Bathurst, from 17 March, 1679 to 29 June, 1693’, 607 large quarto pages, in quarter-vellum marbled boards. c.1693-1704.
Inscribed on the first page ‘This Book belong's to Dr Heath's Library at Mrs Brackley's in Tufton Street Westminster’.
BtA 2
Copy, in several hands, with corrections or revisions, covering only the period from 11 June to 19 September 1679, untitled, 68 quarto leaves, in a recycled vellum deed dated 1673 within modern brown morocco. c.1673-1704.
BtA 3
Copy.
Among MSS of John Byrom (1792-1763), poet and shorthand system inventor.
Rhapsodical Meditations and Visions [Volume II]
Unpublished.
BtA 4
Copy, in at least three cursive hands, covering the period from 31 June 1693 to 21 October 1696, untitled, 99 quarto leaves, in boards. Inscribed on the front paste-down ‘Mrs Ann Bathurst's Writings. vol. 2. from Ann. 1693. to 1696. wch with vol. 1 contains all that she wrote’. c.1696-1704.
Letters
Letter(s)
BtA 5
Roach's copies of three letters by Ann Bathurst, to an aged aristocratic lady (1693); to Roach and Francis Lee (9 July 1695); and to an unidentified person (undated). c.1693-1704.
In: A folio composite volume of correspondence of the Rev. Richard Roach (fl.1697-1727), Fellow of St John's College, Oxford, and Rector of Hackney, in various hands, 321 leaves. c.1700.