Prose
Autobiography
An autobiography modeled on St Augustine's Confessions. Unpublished.
*IsE 1
Autograph notes and drafts for her ‘Book of Remembrance’, including an account of her mother's illness, written in the blank space of a letter to her from her sister-in-law Jane Isham. c.1638-9.
*IsE 2
Autograph MS of ‘My Booke of Remembrance’, closely written in Isham's italic hand, untitled, 38 quarto leaves, in modern cloth-backed marbled boards. c.1638-9.
Bequeathed to Elizabeth Isham's brother, Sir Justinian Isham, second Baronet (1611-65), scholar and politician, and his children. In the collection of Robert H. Taylor (1908-85), American book and manuscript collector.
Discussed in Anne Cotterill, ‘“Fit Words at the pitts brinke”: The Achievement of Elizabeth Isham’, HLQ, 73/2 (2010), 225-48.
Devotional writing
Unpublished.
*IsE 3
Autograph devotional writing, mostly penitential in relation to the Civil Wars, much of it in shorthand, written in the spaces of a letter to her by Lady Denton, dated 30 September 1644. 1644.
Diary
Unpublished.
*IsE 4
Autograph diary, in Isham's minute rugged italic hand, closely written, probably over a period, in a series of 36 upright rectangular panels (numbered up to 40), in columns and in various sequences, with dates (when given) from 1636 to 1646, on all four sides of two unbound conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet. c.1636-46.
Miscellaneous
Booklist
Unpublished.
*IsE 6
Autograph booklist, written in the blank spaces and on the verso of a letter to her from Susanna Stuteville dated 27 May 1648. 1648.
Medical notes
Unpublished.
*IsE 7
Autograph medical notes, written in the blank space of a letter to her from Elizabeth Denton dated 10 December 164?. 1640s.
*IsE 11
Autograph medical notes, written in the blank space of a letter to her from Elizabeth Denton dated 30 July 164?. 1640s.
*IsE 12
Autograph medical notes, written in the blank space of a letter to her from Elizabeth Denton dated 9 May 164?. 1640s.
*IsE 13
Autograph medical notes, written in the blank space of a letter to her from Elizabeth Denton dated 3 December 1643. 1643.
Letters
Letter(s)
Unpublished.
*IsE 14
Autograph draft letters to her father, Sir John Isham, concerning the Civil Wars, undated. 1640s.
*IsE 15
Autograph reply, with news of the Civil Wars, written on the verso of a letter to her by her brother Justinian Isham dated 14 March 164?. 1640s.
*IsE 16
Autograph reply, with news of the Civil Wars, written on the verso of a letter to her by her brother Justinian Isham, dated 20 March 164?. 1640s.
*IsE 17
Autograph letter to her brother Sir Justinian Isham, about a land matter, dated 30 October 165?. 1650s.
*IsE 18
Autograph letter, to her brother Justinian Isham, from Stow, 23 May 1652 (or 1653). 1652-3.
*IsE 19
Autograph letter to her brother, Sir Justinian Isham, about current news, including the death of Susanna Stuteville (on 18 January 1653). 1653.
*IsE 20
Autograph draft letter to an unnamed suitor, as well as some notes in shorthand, on the verso of the address leaf of a letter to her, undated.
*IsE 21
Autograph letter to her father, Sir John Isham, undated.
Petition(s)
Unpublished.
*IsE 22
Autograph petition to King Charles I, the verso containing a paragraph about the Jews.
*IsE 23
Autograph MS of a petition to the house of Commons, undated.