Steele Papers 07 Letters [84-103]

84. Letter from William Steele Junior to Anne Steele

William Steele at [Mrs Gay's in Haycomb near Bath] to Anne Steele at Broughton: death of friend, aunt has recovered from the distemper but is in low spirits (5 October 1736).

85. Letter from Anne Steele to William Steele Junior

Anne Steele's reply to D/STE 3/8/1/3: condolences, father wishes William to come home as smallpox is spreading at Salisbury (29 November 1736).

86. Letter from William Steele Junior to Anne Steele

William Steele at Morley to Anne Steele at ––: has spent the morning reading Pope in the garden: “the finest terrace you can imagine, from whence is a beautiful view of the town of Lewes ... I wait here till Mr Spence, the owner of this delicious place, returns from Tunbridge Wells” (7 August 1742).

87. Letter from Anne Steele to William Steele Junior

Anne Steele at Broughton to William Steele at ––: going to Ringwood the following week to stay with Mr Manfield and his daughter, discussed publication of her poems with Mr Furneaux when he visited, William's garden looking attractive (describes tulips, espalier, parterre, apple blossom) (16 May 1755).

88. Letter from Anne Steele to William Steele Junior

Anne Steele at –– to William Steele at Mr George Bullock's in Yeovil: concerned for health of sister[-in-law Mary Bullock], refers to niece [William Steele's daughter Polly, i.e. Mary, later Dunscombe] (22 January 1762).

89. Letter from Anne Steele to William Steele Junior

Anne Steele at Broughton to William Steele as previous: still concerned for Mary's health (31 January 1762).

90. Letter from Anne Steele to William Steele Junior

Anne Steele at Broughton to William Steele as previous: discusses the health of various members of the family (4 February 1762).

91. Letter from Anne Steele to William Steele Junior

Anne Steele at Broughton to William Steele: sympathy for his attack of gout (4 March 1762).

92. Letter from Anne Steele to William Steele Junior and Polly

Anne Steele at Broughton to William Steele: own and family’s health; adds brief letter to her niece Polly [Mary Steele, later Dunscombe], wishing her happy New Year (5 January 1763).

93. Correspondence of Anne Steele and Mary Bullock Steele

Correspondence between Anne Steele and her sister-in-law Mary Bullock Steele.

94. Letters from Anne Steele to Mary Bullock Steele

Letters of Anne Steele to her sister-in-law Mary Bullock Steele (wife of William Steele junior [IV]), 1750–1762, all written from Broughton and sent to Yeovil.

95. Letter from Anne Steele to Mary Bullock Steele

Unable to visit as her sister [Mary Wakeford] is still very weak [after birth of son Sammy?]; encloses a poem (“Now reigns the charming Spring”) and extols the pleasures of spring in Broughton (7 May 1750).

96. Letter from Anne Steele to Mary Bullock Steele

Her mother is away looking after her sister; Mr Wakeford and the little boy are well (24 October 1751).

97. Letter from Anne Steele to Mary Bullock Steele

References to Bath and people there; the beauty of the garden at Broughton (undated, but the Bath references suggest 1751 or 1752).

98. Letter from Anne Steele to Mary Bullock Steele

Refers to niece Polly [Mary Steele, later Dunscombe]'s birthday on 22 June, visit from Bath friends Mr and Mrs Parsons, seeking assistance to build a meeting-house (6 July 1754).

99. Letter from Anne Steele to Mary Bullock Steele 

Letter re family's health (16 March 1762).

100. Correspondence of Anne Steele and Mary Wakeford Steele (“Silviana and Amira”) Correspondence between Anne Steele and her half–sister Mary Wakeford, née Steele, 1749–1757 (the “Silviana and Amira letters”).

101. Letter from Mary Wakeford Steele to Anne Steele

Amira to Silviana, 23 September 1749: diffident about writing.

102. Letter from Anne Steele to Mary Wakeford Steele

Silviana to Amira, undated: concerning friendship, and sends her a poem “picked up among my old papers” (“Since ev'ry state of Life is doom'd to care”).

103. Letter from Anne Steele to Mary Wakeford Steele

Silviana to Amira, undated: allegory of a beautiful meadow, and Silviana's writings.