Saffery Poetry
Poetry of Maria Grace Saffery and others in the
Steele/Saffery Circle, 1769-1841, belonging to the
Reeves Collection, Bodleian Library[1]
A. Marianna Attwater Head
1. On Reading Fordyce’s Sermons to Young Women[2]
2. Character of Fribble[3]
3. To Lady Andrews with a present of Netting[4]
4. Ode to Peace[5]
5. At the End of a Pockett Book for the Year 1768[6]
6. Wrote in the Beginning of a Pockett Book for 1769[7]
7. To Serena on her Birth Day in the year 1769[8]
8. ‘The Rose – A Simile’ to Serena[9]
9. On Reading[10]
10. [Writer unequall’d in the art to please][11]
11. On May[12]
12. A Sunday Morning’s Reflection[13]
13. Serious Reflections[14]
14. The Willing Captive[15]
15. The Complaint[16]
16. [What Beauteous Form is that in simple dress][17]
17. Cleora while Chearful and Gay[18]
18. [Of [Eden’s vallies] this description find][19]
19. On a Small Branch, put by for a Rod, in a Village School Room[20]
20. On Absence[21]
B. Jane Attwater Blatch
21. On the Death of James Gibbs Esqr who was killed by a fall from his horse, May the 31 1779, aged 21 – Captain of the Light Infantry in the Wiltshire Militia[22]
22. Lines addressed to her Nephew, Philip Whitaker, 1786[23]
23. To her Sister, Marianna[24]
24. Hymn on God’s Love[25]
25. January 1st 1818[26]
26. To Jane Attwater Blatch [from her niece][27]
C. Maria Grace Saffery
27. Perfect Love[28]
28. To Jane on the first return of her Birthday[29]
29. To a Friend with a Roasting Pig[30]
30. To the Same Friend with a Turkey during the War with Turkey[31]
31. Sonnet[32]
32. Hymn[33]
33. Sunday School Hymn[34]’
34. A Funeral Thought[35]
35. Missionary Hymn[36]
36. To M. Saffery[37]
37. To P. J. Saffery[38]
38. From Jane to Philip, enclosed in a purse she had worked for him[39]
39. From Jane to Philip in answer to a letter congratulating her on her birth-day, written just after the death of Edwin Saffery – composed by M. G. S. for Jane[40]
40. To Jane Saffery in London, from her mother, June 1814[41]
41. On the death of ... [42]
42. To Philip on sending him Eustace’s Classical Tour instead of a religious work for which he had written[43]
43. To the same after he had asked her if she did not forget him[44]
44. To Little Jane, without a garland, on her cold birthday, May 1st 1817[45]
45. To some dear one with peaches[46]
46. Lines written at the request of S. W., December 1822[47]
47. Written in my Sister’s Album, March 1823[48]
48. Lines suggested on reading a beautiful address to a Child by Alaric C. Watts Esqr, August 1823.[49]
49. [She ‘sleeps in Jesus.’ Happy thus to rest][50]
50. [These little records of departed days][51]
51. To the Baby Maria[52]
52. To Jane Saffery, on her birthday, May 1st, 1825, a few weeks after the death of her Father[53]
53. To Jane, May 1st, 1828[54]
54. ‘For the Album of a Very Little Child’[55]
55. To E. A. Bisdee, seven years old on her Birthday[56]
56. Reminiscences of the 20th and the 21st Addressed to my dear Mary[57]
57. To Alfred Romilly Whitaker on ‘the plain’ at Stonehenge, August 1831[58]To the Memory of the Same[59]
58. To a Child one year old with her first Alphabet[60]
59. A Plea for Infant Schools[61]
60. Addressed to the Contributors of an Infant School Bazaar held at Salisbury, 1833[62]
61. To — in November, 1833[63]
62. To the Memory of Mrs. H. More[64]
63. To the Memory of Dr Carey of Serampore[65]
64. To the Memory of Dr Carey[66]
65. A Birthday Wish for November 9, 1835 – ‘The peace that passeth understanding’ [67]
66. Edith’s infant Smile, a song, for –[68]
67. A Birthday Thought, 1 March 1836[69]
68. For July 23rd, 1836[70]
69. To my only Sister on her Birthday, 23 June 1837[71]
70. Composed during the Banquet given in honour of the Queen’s visit to the City, 9 November 1837[72]
71. To Jane, on the Birth of her First Child[73]
72. Sonnet for the Coronation[74]
73. To the Queen Dowager with ‘Sacred Poems’[75]
74. To little Mary Bisdee born in Van Dieman’s land & left in England by her mother – on her Birthday, 4 October 1838[76]
75. To Rosalie Anne Green on her fifth Birthday, 6 March 1839[77]
76. To an affectionate Domestic in the family of a friend with Spectacles once my own[78]
77. From a Child to its Foster Mother with a Heath-Plant (‘To Mrs Boys from Ellen Maria Saffery’)[79]
78. Lines for Music[80]
79. Acrostic addressed to Rev. E. Phillips of East Tytherley[81]
80. Addressed to the Rev. Alfred Phillips, Kilmersdon, Somerset[82]
81. Addressed to the Rev. W. Lisle Bowles[83]
82. To R. F. – M. D. in Sickness[84]
83. To D. C. Read Esq. Artist[85]
84. Funeral Hymn suggested by the Death of a Friend distinguished for Benevolence[86]
85. For unto you is born this day in the City of David a Saviour which is Christ the Lord[87]
86. Sabbath Solitude, addressed to a Sick Friend[88]
87. Sabbath-hours[89]
88. Sabbath-hours. Second part.[90]
89. Sabbath-hours. Third part.[91]
90. To a Silent Dove in a far Country[92]
91. Child’s Hymn, composed for Rosalie Anne Green[93]
92. The Closing Year[94]
93. ‘How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings!’ [95]
94. ‘Come over … and help us’[96]
95. Hymn for the Consecration of a Place of Worship erected as a Thank-Offering[97]
96. The Missionary[98]
97. A Funeral Thought[99]
98. [O Dear Annie on thy baby bliss][100]
99. To little Anna Jane – one year old – March 12th ’39[101]
100. On a Butterfly, taken asleep on Sunday, 14 August 1839[102]
101. Sonnet for the birthday of the Beloved Samuel Saffery – Lord’s Day, February 21st, 1841[103]
102. To Mary Attwater on the Eve of her Marriage[104]
103. To Edith on her ninth Birthday[105]
104. Sonnet¾Intended for the Album of Lucy Stapleton addressed to her during her last Illness. The closing line added after her death.[106]
105. To a Friend, known from early Childhood[107]
106. To my young friend E. M. Betts, confined to her Couch by sickness[108]
107. Retrospect[109]
108. To a young Friend[110]
109. [Maiden smile; – for Life is sweet][111]
110. To a deaf Friend, in acknowledgment of her parting blessing[112]
111. Dedicatory to a beloved and only Sister[113]
112. Sonnet – Written in the album of Mrs P. Whitaker Jun.[114]
113. Written at the request of a friend, after a long delay[115]
114. To a Dejected Friend[116]
115. To a Young Friend on leaving her Home. A Simile[117]
116. To Margretta Macdonald, for whom I could not find a flower on a winter day due to her for personating the Lady in Comus[118]
117. Lacock Abbey[119]
118. Harvest Hymn[120]
119. [Since Eden’s roses faded, since her bowers][121]
120. [There are who know not how to prove][122]
121. The Beetle[123]
122. Disappointment[124]
123. Three Prose Pieces by Maria Grace Saffery[125]
D. Anne Andrews Whitaker
124. To my little Son Edwin Eugene on his Birthday, June 22nd 1820[126]
125. A Mother’s Wish, August 3rd 1820[127]
126. To Mrs Caroline Whitaker on the seventy-eighth Anniversary of her birth, January 29th 1824[128]
E. Jane Saffery Whitaker
127. Four Fragments[129]
128. To my fondly loved, but ever doubting one[130]
129. For my dear Children[131]
130. Jane to Philip[132]
131. [The Neriads are swelling the wint’ry wave] [133]
132. Fragment[134]
133. The Pulpit Cushion[135]
F. Miscellaneous Poems
134. Lines addressed to Philip Whitaker on his 54th birthday by his three youngest children, composed in 1820[136]
135. To my Friend and Pastor Revd P. J. Saffery[137]
Notes
[1]The poetry of Marianna Attwater Head and Jane Attwater Blatch can be found in Whelan, Nonconformist Women Writers, vol. 4; those of Maria Saffery, Anne Whitaker, and Jane Saffery Whitaker, can be found in vol. 5.
[2]Reeves Collection, Box 28/1, Bodleian.
[3]Reeves Collection, Box 28/1, Bodleian.
[4]Reeves Collection, Box 28/1, Bodleian.
[5]Reeves Collection, Box 2/A/1, Bodleian.
[6]Reeves Collection, Box 28/1, Bodleian.
[7]Reeves Collection, Box 28/1, Bodleian.
[8]Reeves Collection, Box 28/1, Bodleian.
[9]Reeves Collection, Box 28/1, Bodleian.
[10]Reeves Collection, Box 28/1, Bodleian.
[11]Reeves Collection, Box 2/A/1, Bodleian.
[12]Reeves Collection, Box 28/1, Bodleian.
[13]Reeves Collection, Box 28/1, Bodleian.
[14]Reeves Collection, Box 28/1, Bodleian.
[15]Reeves Collection, Box 28/1, Bodleian.
[16]Reeves Collection, Box 2/A/1, Bodleian.
[17]Reeves Collection, Box 2/A/1, Bodleian.
[18]Reeves Collection, Box 2/A/1, Bodleian.
[19]Reeves Collection, Box 2/A/1, Bodleian.
[20]Reeves Collection, Box 2/A/1, Bodleian.
[21]Reeves Collection, Box 2/A/1, Bodleian.
[22]Reeves Collection, Bodleian.
[23]Reeves Collection, Box 16/1, Bodleian.
[24]Reeves Collection, Box 19, Bodleian.
[25]Reeves Collection, Bodleian.
[26]Reeves Collection, Bodleian.
[27]Reeves Collection, Box 19/2/m, Bodleian, transcribed by Jane Attwater.
[28]Copy-text from Theological and Biblical Magazine, 4 (July 1804), p. 279; MS, Attwater Papers, acc. 76, II.A.2, pp. 22-3, titled ‘On hearing a Sermon from 1st Epistle of John Chapr & 18 Verse¾Perfect love casteth out fear &c¾’; except in two instances, the manuscript is identical to the copy-text; another copy can be found in Box 22/1, Reeves Collection, titled ‘Perfect Love’, signed ‘M.G.S.’, stanzas numbered, with no ending punctuation for any of the lines. The hymn also appeared in Christopher Anderson’s Selection of Hymns adapted for Divine Worship (1823).
[29]Box 22/1, Reeves Collection, Bodleian; manuscript has virtually no ending punctuation for the lines.
[30]Box 22/1, Reeves Collection, Bodleian.
[31]Box 22/1, Reeves Collection, Bodleian.
[32]Copy-text from Baptist Magazine, 2 (October 1810), p. 540, under the title ‘Sonnet. Addressed to children in Infancy and absence, By a Mother’; MS, Box 17/3, Reeves Collection, Bodleian, titled ‘Sonnet, To all my dear little Children’, in three quatrains and couplet, with the following note dated 4 July 1810, from Bratton: ‘Your dear Father will explain the sentiment which is conveyed to you in the language of poetry, and which flowed from the heart of | your tender anxious Mother | Maria Grace Saffery’; on the back of the folium is written, in Saffery’s hand, ‘For, The dear Children’. Another copy also in Box 22/1, Reeves Collection, Bodleian, titled ‘A Sonnet addressed to her Children, in Infancy and Absence’, with no ending punctuation except for line 14; another manuscript copy can be found on a loose folium placed inside the back cover of ‘Lyra Domestica’, Box 25/1, Reeves Collection, Bodleian, signed ‘M.G.S.’
[33]Copy-text from Baptist Magazine, 1 (1809), p. 120; MS, Box 22/1, Reeves Collection, Bodleian, titled ‘Missionary Hymn’, signed ‘M.G.S.’, with punctuation only at the end of lines 4, 8, 12, and 16; another manuscript copy in Reeves 25/1, titled ‘Missionary Hymn’, with the same ending punctuation as Reeves 22/1, but without the last stanza.
[34]Box 27/1, Reeves Collection; for Sunday Schools, see above, n. 00.
[35]Copy-text from Baptist Magazine, 3 (January 1811), p. 43; MS, Box 22/1, Reeves Collection, Bodleian, signed ‘M.G.S.’, with ending punctuation only at line 4, 6, 8, and 16. The subject of this poem is unknown.
[36]Copy-text from Baptist Magazine, 3 (September 1811), p. 396; MS, Box 22/1, Reeves Collection, Bodleian, titled ‘Hymn’, with ending punctuation at lines 4, 8, 10, 12, 16, 18, 20, and 24..
[37]Box 22/1, Reeves Collection, Bodleian.
[38]Box 22/1, Reeves Collection, Bodleian.
[39]Box 22/1, Reeves Collection, Bodleian.
[40]Box 22/1, Reeves Collection, Bodleian.
[41]Copy-text taken from a fair copy of the poem which was sent as a letter to Jane Saffery from MGS, Bratton Farm, 16 July 1814, in Saffery/Attwater Papers, acc. 142, I.B.5.a.(1.). Address: Miss Mason | (70) High Holborn | London | For Miss Jane Saffery. Postmark: Westbury, no date; another copy of the poem resides in Box 22/1, Reeves Collection, Bodleian, titled ‘To Jane Saffery in London, from her Mamma, Bratton Farm, Salisbury Plain, June 1814’.
[42]Box 27/1, Reeves Collection; two manuscript versions exist in this bundle of poems, both very rough drafts and difficult to read. This elegy, composed c. 1815, commemorates the deaths of Samuel Pearce (1799), John Sutcliff (1814), and Andrew Fuller (1815), all important Particular Baptists ministers in England and leaders within the Baptist Missionary Society, with Fuller having served as the Society’s leader from its inception in 1792 to his death. All were known personally by MGS and her husband, John Saffery. For whatever reason, MGS did not produce a fair copy of this poem.
[43]Box 22/1, Reeves Collection, Bodleian. This poem was composed most likely during P. J. Saffery’s time as a student at Bristol Baptist Academy. The work mentioned by MGS is John Chetwolde Eustace’s A Classical Tour through Italy, an. MDCCCII (London: J. Mawman, 1815).
[44]Box 22/1, Reeves Collection, Bodleian.
[45]Copy-text from Box 17/3, Reeves Collection, Bodleian; another manuscript version of the poem can be found in the Box 22/1, Reeves Collection, signed ‘M.G.S.’, with no variants other than punctuation and the title, ‘To Jane, on her cold Birthday 1 May 1817’. This was Jane Saffery’s 12th birthday.
[46]Box 17/7, Reeves Collection, Bodleian; another manuscript version can be found in Saffery/Whitaker Papers, acc. 142, II.A.2, Angus Library. The above lines were taken from a letter by MGS to her son, Samuel (accompanied by a basket of fruit), dated 24 August 1822; the letter was copied by Samuel into his letter book, now residing in Reeves 17/7.
[47]Box 22/1, Reeves Collection, Bodleian. This poem was written at the request of Sarah Waylen Whitaker upon her marriage to Alfred Whitaker in December 1822. She would die within a year, provoking another poem by MGS.
[48]Box 22/1, Reeves Collection, Bodleian.
[49]Box 22/1, Reeves Collection, Bodleian.
[50]Box 22/1, Reeves Collection, Bodleian.
[51]Box 22/1, Reeves Collection, Bodleian.
[52]Copy-text from ‘Lyra Domestica’, Box 25/1, fol.5.r, Reeves Collection, Bodleian; another manuscript version can be found on a loose folium in Box 22/1, Reeves Collection, with the same title.
[53]Box 17/3, Reeves Collection; addressed on the back of the folium, ‘To Jane’.
[54]Box 27/1, Reeves Collection, Bodleian.
[55]Copy-text from The Juvenile Forget Me Not for 1831, ed. Mrs. S. C. Hall (London: Frederick Westley and A. H. Davis, [1831]), p. 160, with closing punctuation added to lines 3, 9-10, 17-19; MS, ‘Lyra Domestica’, Box 25/1, f.7r, Reeves Collection, titled ‘For the Album of a very little child addressed to M. Bisdee, 1828’. Saffery added (incorrectly) a note in ‘Lyra Domestica’ that the poem had been published in The Juvenile Forget Me Not for 1829.
[56]‘Lyra Domestica’, Box 25/1, f.6r, Reeves Collection, Bodleian.
[57]Box 27/1, Reeves Collection, Bodleian.
[58]‘Lyra Domestica’, Box 25/1, f.11r, Reeves Collection, Bodleian.
[59]‘Lyra Domestica’, Box 25/1, f.11r, Reeves Collection, Bodleian.
[60]‘Lyra Domestica’, Box 25/1, f.4r, Reeves Collection, Bodleian.
[61]‘Lyra Domestica’, Box 25/1, f.29r, Reeves Collection, Bodleian; at the foot of the page is a drawing by Saffery of a box with a hole in the top with an inscription, ‘Remember the poor’.
[62]‘Lyra Domestica’, Box 25/1, f.30r-31r, Reeves Collection, Bodleian; at the foot of the page is a drawing by Saffery of some knitting materials.
[63]Box 27/1, Reeves Collection, Bodleian, in rough draft form.
[64]Copy-text from Baptist Magazine 25 (1833), p. 600; manuscript version in ‘Lyra Domestica’, Box 25/1, f.25r, Reeves Collection, Bodleian.
[65]‘Lyra Domestica’, Box 25/1, f.68v, Reeves Collection, Bodleian; beneath the poem is the drawing of a woman with a staff bearing the initials ‘T. H. S’ across the top, standing in front of a tomb marked ‘W. C.’ with a kneeling Indian man looking up to her with hands folded in prayer.
[66]‘Lyra Domestica’, Box 25/1, f.69r-v, Reeves Collection, Bodleian.
[67]‘Lyra Domestica’, Box 25/1, f.1r, Reeves Collection, Bodleian; at the foot of the page is a drawing by MGS of a bird’s nest in a tree branch.
[68]‘Lyra Domestica’, Box 25/1, f.12r, Reeves Collection, Bodleian.
[69]‘Lyra Domestica’, Box 25/1, f.2r, Reeves Collection, Bodleian.
[70]Box 17/3, Reeves Collection, Bodleian.
[71]‘Lyra Domestica’, Box 25/1, f.19r, Reeves Collection, Bodleian.
[72]‘Lyra Domestica’, Box 25/1, f.26r-v, Reeves Collection, Bodleian.
[73]Box 17/3, Reeves Collection, Bodleian.
[74]Copy-text from The London Standard, 27 June, p. 4; MS, ‘Lyra Domestica’, Box 25/1, f.27r, Reeves Collection, Bodleian, titled ‘Sonnet – On the Coronation of the Queen, 28th June 1838’, with the inscription included in the above poem (not included in the published version in the Standard).
[75]Copy-text from The London Standard, 27 June, p. 4; MS, ‘Lyra Domestica’, Box 25/1, f.27r, Reeves Collection, Bodleian, titled ‘Sonnet – On the Coronation of the Queen, 28th June 1838’, with the inscription included in the above poem (not included in the published version in the Standard).
[76]‘Lyra Domestica’, Box 25/1, f.6v, Reeves Collection, Bodleian.
[77]‘Lyra Domestica’, Box 25/1, f.13r, Reeves Collection, Bodleian; at the foot of the page is a drawing of a cat dressed in a cloak and bonnet with the inscription ‘Pussy in a Cloak & Bonnet’.
[78]‘Lyra Domestica’, Box 25/1, f. 31r-v, Reeves Collection, Bodleian.
[79]‘Lyra Domestica’, Box 25/1, f. 32r, Reeves Collection, Bodleian.
[80]‘Lyra Domestica’, Box 25/1, f. 33r, Reeves Collection, Bodleian.
[81]‘Lyra Domestica’, Box 25/1, f. 34r, Reeves Collection, Bodleian; beneath the poem is a drawing of a man smoking a long pipe next to a tree with an inscription underneath, ‘E.P.E.T.
[82]Lyra Domestica’, Box 25/1, f. 35r, Reeves Collection, Bodleian; beneath the poem is a drawing of a cane placed on a ribbon inscribed ‘Agnus Dei’.
[83]‘Lyra Domestica’, Box 25/1, f. 36r, Reeves Collection, Bodleian.
[84]‘Lyra Domestica’, Box 25/1, f. 37r, Reeves Collection, Bodleian. Apparently, ‘R.F.’ was a medical doctor and friend of MGS.
[85]‘Lyra Domestica’, Box 25/1, f. 38r, Reeves Collection, Bodleian; beneath the poem is a drawing of a profile of a face on a painting palette with some paint brushes and the inscription, ‘D. C. Read Etchings’. The artist David Charles Read (1790-1851) lived in Salisbury.
[86]‘Lyra Domestica’, Box 25/1, f. 67r-v, Reeves Collection, Bodleian; on the second page, beneath the poem, is the drawing of a tomb (marked ‘E. L.’) with the inscription, ‘Her leaf shall be green’, with an anchor attached to it, floating in a river by a willow tree.
[87]‘Lyra Domestica’, Box 25/1, f. 68r, Reeves Collection, Bodleian; title taken from Luke 2:11.
[88]‘Lyra Domestica’, Box 25/1, f. 70r, Reeves Collection, Bodleian.
[89]‘Lyra Domestica’, Box 25/1, f. 71r, Reeves Collection, Bodleian.
[90]‘Lyra Domestica’, Box 25/1, f. 72r, Reeves Collection, Bodleian.
[91]‘Lyra Domestica’, Box 25/1, f. 73r, Reeves Collection, Bodleian.
[92]‘Lyra Domestica’, Box 25/1, f. 74r, Reeves Collection, Bodleian. Reference is to the dove released by Moses to search for dry lad as the waters of the flood receded; see Genesis 8:9-11.
[93]‘Lyra Domestica’, Box 25/1, f. 75r, Reeves Collection, Bodleian.
[94]‘Lyra Domestica’, Box 25/1, f. 76r, Reeves Collection, Bodleian; beneath the poem is a drawing of an hourglass situated within a scythe. See also above, poems 2, 7.
[95]Published in Leifchild, Original Hymns, no. 297; also published in Leifchild, Hymns Appropriate to Christian Union, Selected and Original (London: J. Unwin, 1846), no. 62, as ‘Certain success of the Gospel’. Manuscript version in ‘Lyra Domestica’, Box 25/1, f.77r, Reeves Collection, Bodleian.
[96]‘Lyra Domestica’, Box 25/1, f. 78r, Reeves Collection, Bodleian; title taken from Acts 16:9.
[97]‘Lyra Domestica’, Box 25/1, f. 79r, 80r, Reeves Collection, Bodleian.
[98]‘Lyra Domestica’, Box 25/1, f. 81r, Reeves Collection, Bodleian; beneath the poem is a drawing of a banner with a trumpet horn on each side.
[99]Box 22/1, Reeves Collection, Bodleian; first stanza repeated above, poem 165.
[100]Box 17/3, Reeves Collection, Bodleian; the poem is from c. 1838.
[101]Box 17/3, Reeves Collection, Bodleian.
[102]‘Lyra Domestica’, Box 25/1, f. 16r, Reeves Collection, Bodleian; beneath the poem is a drawing by Saffery of a hand reaching to touch a butterfly resting on a flower, signed ‘S.S. 14 Aug: 1839’.
[103]Box 17/3, Reeves Collection, Bodleian; MGS’s son, Samuel, would have been celebrating his 34th birthday.
[104]Box 17/3, Reeves Collection, Bodleian; MGS’s son, Samuel, would have been celebrating his 34th birthday.
[105]Box 27/1, Reeves Collection, Bodleian.
[106]Lyra Domestica’, Box 25/1, f. 3r, Reeves Collection, Bodleian, with a drawing of a vase and a writing pen at the foot of the page. Lucy Ryland Stapleton (1787-c. 1836), daughter of Richard and Harriet Ryland of London, lived in the Saffery home, 1807-12, prior to her marriage to Joseph Stapleton of Colchester in June 1813. They settled at Bradford-on-Avon, attending the Baptist church there along with Marianna Attwater Head. Lucy and her sister, Harriet, appear in numerous letters in Volume 6, along with a substantial set of letters from their father to Maria Saffery.
[107]‘Lyra Domestica’, Box 25/1, fol. 8-9, Reeves Collection, Bodleian.
[108]‘Lyra Domestica’, Box 25/1, fol. 9, Reeves Collection, Bodleian.
[109]‘Lyra Domestica’, Box 25/1, fol. 14r, Reeves Collection, Bodleian.
[110]‘Lyra Domestica’, Box 25/1, fol. 14r, Reeves Collection, Bodleian.
[111]‘Lyra Domestica’, Box 25/1, fol. 15r, Reeves Collection, Bodleian.
[112]‘Lyra Domestica’, Box 25/1, fol. 17r, Reeves Collection, Bodleian.
[113]‘Lyra Domestica’, Box 25/1, fol. 18-19, Reeves Collection, Bodleian.
[114]‘Lyra Domestica’, Box 25/1, fol. 20r, Reeves Collection, Bodleian; at the foot of the page is a drawing of a lyre.
[115]‘Lyra Domestica’, Box 25/1, fol. 21r, Reeves Collection, Bodleian; at the foot of the page is a drawing of a leaf.
[116]‘Lyra Domestica’, Box 25/1, fol. 22r, Reeves Collection, Bodleian; inscription from Revelation 22:17.
[117]‘Lyra Domestica’, Box 25/1, fol. 23r, Reeves Collection, Bodleian; another version can be found in Box 17/3, Reeves Collection, Bodleian, titled ‘Simile’.
[118]Lyra Domestica’, Box 25/1, fol.24r, Reeves Collection, Bodleian.
[119]Box 27/1, Reeves Collection, Bodleian; by the appearance of MGS’s hand, this is an early poem, most likely from the 1790s.
[120]Box 27/1, Reeves Collection, Bodleian.
[121]Box 27/1, Reeves Collection, Bodleian.
[122]Box 27/1, Reeves Collection, Bodleian.
[123]Box 27/1, Reeves Collection, Bodleian.
[124]Box 27/1, Reeves Collection, Bodleian.
[125]Box 27/1, Reeves Collection, Bodleian.
[126]Box 17/2, Reeves Collection, Bodleian.
[127]Box 17/3, Reeves Collection, Bodleian.
[128]Box 21/4.(e.), Reeves Collection, Bodleian; autograph of AW.
[129]Box 17/3, Reeves Collection, Bodleian.
[130]Box 17/3, Reeves Collection, Bodleian.
[131]Box 17/3, Reeves Collection, Bodleian; on the back of the folium is written, ‘For my dear Children’, which has been appropriated as the title.
[132]Box 17/3, Reeves Collection, Bodleian.
[133]Box 17/3, Reeves Collection, Bodleian.
[134]Box 17/3, Reeves Collection, Bodleian.
[135]Box 27/1, Reeves Collection, Bodleian; unsigned.
[136]Box 21/4.(e.), Reeves Collection, Bodleian; the three sons were John (b. 11 June 1810), George (b. 9 October 1811), and Edwin (b. 22 June 1814), though their names are not attached to any particular poem.
[137]Box 27/1, Reeves Collection, Bodleian.