Steele Papers 05 [58-62]

58. Anne Steele Prose
Manuscript prose by Anne Steele, most of which was published in Theodosia, “Poems on Subjects Chiefly Devotional” (1780), vol. 3. Not published: 4 “Self-reflection”; 5 “Rewarding my wanderings”; 6 “Desiring a sense of redeeming love”; 8 “Mourning the hardness of my heart”; 9 “Desiring to be thankful”.
59. Anne Steele Miscellaneous Prose
Miscellaneous prose writings by Anne Steele: draft dedication to her father William Steele III of her poems [c.1760], and miscellaneous thoughts on pride and reputation (undated and unpublished).
60. Works Transcribed by Anne Steele
61. Transcripts of Mary Scott Taylor Poems
Notebook containing “Hymns of Miss Scott”, undated, transcribed by Anne Steele into a disbound pocket notebook with blue sugar-paper covers. Contents:
p. 1 Christ our example (“Blest Jesus how divinely bright”);
p. 3 Renouncing the world (“Vain worlds!”);
p. 4 A hymn of praise in the Spring (“Benign Creator”);
p. 5 A hymn of praise to God on 5 November (“Aid us celestial power”);
p. 8 Hymn (“In vain before the watchful bird”);
p.10 Salvation through Faith (“Bright heav'n-born faith”);
p.12 God above all praise (“Awake my soul”);
p. 13 An unchangeable God (“My God shall I”);
p. 15 Resignation to the divine will (“Lord I would bow”);
p. 16 True happiness (“Vain are the shifting scenes”);
p. 21 The vanity of the world (“Unhappy mortals!”);
p. 23 A hymn of praise to God (“Great God to celebrate Thy praise”);
p. 25 That God is a hearer of prayer proved (“And will the great”);
p. 27 A consciousness of God (“Great God thy penetrating eye”);
p. 29 The justice...of the Curse (“Incarnate Saviour in thy face”);
p. 31 God the refuge of His people (“The Lord Jehovah is my strength”);
p. 32 Committing the soul to God (“Jehovah, God of ceaseless truth”);
p. 34 The woeful degeneracy of the human race (“Jehovah from His heav'nly throne”);
p. 35 A hymn of praise (“What finite power”);
p. 39 Pardon and Peace (“Great God before whose piercing eye”);
p. 40 Acknowledging the justice of God (“Great Arbiter of life and death”);
p. 42 A hymn for my dear father's use on his recovering from a dangerous illness (“O thou that hearest prayer”);
p. 44 Another: Psalm ciii (“Bless then the Lord”);
p. 46 A hymn of thanksgiving for my dear father's recovery: Psalm cxvi (“I love because in my distress”);
p.47 An evening hymn (“Soft season of repose”);
p. 49 Chronicles [which?] xxix. 11–14 (“Thy bounties gracious God”);
p. 51 On a day appointed for general fasting and prayer (“When Abram full of sacred awe”).
62. Transcripts of Mary Steele Wakeford Poems
4 poems by Amira [Anne Steele's half-sister Mary Steele Wakeford]:
1 “My trembling drooping spirit”;
2 “Aminta, though my eyes”;
3 Farewell to Life;
4 “If Love's constraining pow'r”.