63. Transcripts of Richard Pearsall Letter Praising Poems
Two copies of a letter from Richard Pearsall to Joseph Wakeford praising a volume of Theodosia's poems given to him by Miss Hannah Lavington (undated but post-1760): one copy transcribed by Anne Steele, one by Mary Wakeford.
64. Correspondence of Anne Steele and Ann Cator Steele
Correspondence between Anne Steele and her stepmother, Ann Cator Steele.
65. Letters from Anne Steele to Ann Cator Steele
Letters from Anne Steele to her stepmother, Ann Cator Steele, at Broughton, 1729–1751.
66. Letter from Anne Steele to Ann Cator Steele
Anne Steele at school in Trowbridge: refers to brother's illness, aunt's death, and her teacher: “my mistress is an odd-tempered woman but she is as kind to me as to the rest, our work is most on headcloths” (26 September 1729).
67. Letter from Anne Steele to Ann Cator Steele
Anne Steele at Haycomb: notes smallpox deaths in Trowbridge (27 September 1734).
68. Letter from Anne Steele to Ann Cator Steele
Anne Steele staying with the Manfields at Ringwood: her sister is learning to dance the minuet, requests that her “suit of light colour'd cloaths” be sent but neither she nor her sister have clothes “fine enough for the Ringwood Ladies” (21 May 1739).
69. Letter from Anne Steele to Ann Cator Steele
Anne Steele staying with the Manfields at Ringwood: busy social life, comments on local preachers Mr Wheeler and Mr Walter, sister has been learning to dance for nine weeks out of the half–quarter, Anne Steele did not learn the spinet as the teacher “asked a crown a week which I think is very extravagant” (1 June 1739)
70. Letter from Anne Steele to Ann Cator Steele
Anne Steele staying with the Manfields at Ringwood: her sister's teacher to continue teaching her at 2s per week, Anne Steele is making a Brussels [lace] handkerchief, sad at news of her uncle's death (29 June 1739).
71. Letter from Anne Steele to Ann Cator Steele
Anne Steele at Devizes: toothache caused by the cold, has made few acquaintances but her sister attends dancing classes on Wednesdays with six or seven young ladies at the new Town Hall, has seen the military camp a mile out of town (4 September 1740).
72. Letter from Anne Steele to Ann Cator Steele
Anne Steele at Devizes: worries that parents might have succumbed to “the fatal distemper so near you”, asks mother to send “the yard of reddish persian in my drawer” to line a pillow, smallpox at Trowbridge as a result of which Mr Freeman has died (22 September 1740).
73. Letter from Anne Steele to Ann Cator Steele
Anne Steele staying at Mr Manfield's in Ringwood: very dispirited after watching “the lights in the air” all evening (21 September 1741)
74. Letter from Anne Steele to Ann Cator Steele
Anne Steele staying at Mr Manfield's in Ringwood: pains in her head and stomach, fears the “apprehensions of an invasion” (30 December 1745).
75. Letter from Anne Steele to Ann Cator Steele
Anne Steele at Bath: her sister takes the waters but she will not until her cold and cough disappear, has been invited to Haycomb by her aunt but prefers to stay in Bath and see her brother William, sister has infected toe but “when I remember sister Molly's foot [I] am afraid of the Bath surgeon (11 May 1751).
76. Letter from Anne Steele to Ann Cator Steele
Anne Steele at Bath: concern at her stepmother's illness, sister's foot has improved, asks her mother to “take out my best gowns on a fine day and spread them on the bed with the windows open, lest they be mildewed as my shade was” (18 May 1751).
77. Letter from Anne Steele to Ann Cator Steele
Anne Steele at Bath: has been ill all week, disappointed that William was unable to visit (25 May 1751).
78. Letter from Anne Steele to Ann Cator Steele
Anne Steele at Bath: is taking the waters but “don't find I am much better for it” (2 June 1751).
79. Correspondence of Anne Steele and William Steele Junior
Correspondence between Anne Steele and her brother William Steele IV.
80. Correspondence of Anne Steele and William Steele Junior
Correspondence between Anne Steele and her brother William Steele IV, 1736–1763.
81. Letter from Anne Steele to William Steele Junior
Anne Steele at Trowbridge [Mr Joseph Cottle's] to William Steele at Broughton: notes “the continual din of a noisy town”, has toothache, sister Molly is at school but does not like her mistress and learns little in the hot weather (27 June 1736).
82. Letter from William Steele Junior to Anne Steele
William Steele's reply to D/STE 3/8/1/1: talks of the joys of country life to cheer her in the noise and heat of town, Mr Thomas Attwater injured in a fall from his horse (28 June 1736).
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