- NLW MS 775B.
- File
- 1650-1658.
The first of two manuscripts (see also NLW MS 756B) containing poems, 1650-1658, by Katherine Philips, including some not printed in Poems By the Most Deservedly Admired Mrs Katherine Philips The Matchless Orinda ... (London, 1667, ESTC R19299), together with biographical notes, mainly in the hand of William Hall, antiquary and bookseller of King's Lynn, Norfolk. NLW MS 775B is in the hand of Katherine Phillips, whilst NLW MS 776B is in a contemporary scibal hand (information supplied by Elizabeth H. Hageman, June 2015).
The volume contains corrected fair copies of fifty-five poems, with the titles only of two others. See Index of English Literary Manuscripts, 4 vols (London, 1980-1997), II, part 2, compiled by Peter Beal (1993), pp. 128-129, and The Collected Works of Katherine Philips, ed. by Patrick Thomas, 3 vols (Stump Cross, Essex, 1990-1993), I: The Poems (1990).
Philips, Katherine, 1632-1664.