Letter to Mary Wakeford 1756

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Anne Steele, [Broughton], to Mary Wakeford, [Andover], undated.

Dear Amira

My manner of telling you the following Story may perhaps want apology, but the Subject needs no introduction.

There was in ancient times a Prince who reign’d over a vast extent of Land in perfect peace, his ample Dominions were in a flourishing state, his Subjects enjoy’d a profound tranquility, and paid him the most exact obedience: This Prince (tho’ powerful) was tributary to a great King whose Laws he was obligd to obey, but which were all Equitable, Wise, and Good; and calculated not only for the Honour of the Sovereign but every way conducive to the welfare of the dependant Prince & his posterity: in high favour with the King, and possessing all the Glory & prosperity his heart cou’d wish, what could be a happier situation? But alas! this weak mistaken Prince seduced by a wicked Outlaw (who had been expell’d the Kings Court for treasonable practices and sought his revenge in the ruin of this envy’d Favorite) fell a prey to his mischievous Arts, forfeited all his honours, & immunities, and his Life by black rebellion. Unhappy, ungrateful wretch! What did he deserve? - Death without mercy - to Death he was condemn’d; and in this dreadful sentence all his Children were included for so the Law requir’d, but by a ^strange^ surprizing Act of Goodness he was sav’d - the Kings only Son, and Partner of his Empire, to the amazement of all the Court - unsolicited, undesired - offer’d his Mediation - but how? To die in the Rebels stead - and did his Father accept the strange proposal? He did - and did the Son actually suffer? He did.- the most painful, shocking & ignominious Death.—read the heart-affecting Story in the Sacred volumn, where I had it - you have already read it - read it again - read & wonder, for Angels may forever! This Divine Redeemer you know rose again to Life and crown’d with new Glories return’d to his Fathers Court. There he now lives and reigns, and pleads with his Father the merit of his amazing Sufferings, not only for the first Offender but for all those of his Descendants who are truely sensible of their wretched condition, sincerely willing to recieve Mercy at his hand, and apply for it in his appointed Way: Such, he not only pardons but receives to his Favour, not only receives to Favour, but has bound himself by the most firm & inviolable engagements to bring them at last to his Fathers Court and place them in a state of Happiness far superior to that which their Predecessor by his rebellion had forfeited - this is not all he sends them a Guide, a person of consummate skill nearly related to himself; under the conduct of this wise and faithful Guide, and dilligently observant of his directions they cannot finally and fatally err. - but alas! How many obstinate rebels are there who desire not his assistance! Who refuse the gracious tenders of Pardon & Happiness, and blindly pursue their own utter ruin!—And such is Human weakness that even those penitent Delinquents who have sincerely apply’d for pardon, & found acceptance, are sometimes too apt to disregard the instructions of their Great Conductor, and step out of the way in search of vain amusement - Then their Guide griev’d and offended at their folly, withdraws from their sight a while, but leaves them not unnotic’d; he speaks, but while the interposing cloud hangs heavy round them, they hardly know the Voice which warns them of their danger and bids them turn again to the path of Duty. Trembling they turn, and mourn their guilty wanderings, till their Gracious Conductor again appears, dispels the oppressive gloom, supports their timerous steps, and tells them they are safe – If their path is plain & easy, and they meet with no difficulties or distresses, they are sometimes apt to sit down and fall asleep, forgetful of their journey and its Glorious End; but their ever-faithful Guide awakens them with the voice of kind reproof and bids them be active & vigilant.

If they are terrify’d with apprehensions of danger, he speaks peace and composure to their troubled Minds, in the assurance that they have an Omnipotent Friend, who will never leave them nor forsake them - If their Spirits sink discouraged with the difficulties of the way, he animates them to run with patience the race set before them, and directs them to look to their Great Forerunner & Example, who for the Joy set before him endured the Cross despising the shame, and is now seated at his Fathers right hand waiting their arrival, ready to receive them into the Mansions of Glory & Felicity, where they shall be ever with their Lord! - You and I my dear Amira are I hope among these Travellers, let us endeavour to encourage each other in the journey by talking of the Glorious Person who has wrought such wonders of surprizing Love, of the Mansions of Eternal delight which he has prepar’d for his faithful followers, and of the unspeakable inconceivable joys we hope for in dwelling forever in his Presence!—and may we be very careful that we do not offend our kind, our faithful Guide by negligence and heedless folly!—sensible of our own weakness may we observe his directions with attentive care, and follow them with constant dilligence, till under his unerring Conduct we are brought at last safe to the blissful Residence of our Glorious King, our Exalted Redeemer!—join my Dear Sister Amira the wishes of

Your affectionate

Silviana

Text: STE 3/10/xv Steele Collection, Angus Library, Regent's Park College, Oxford. No address page. For an annotated version of this letter, see Timothy Whelan, gen. ed., Nonconformist Women Writers, 1720-1840 (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2011), vol. 2, ed. Julia B. Griffin, pp. 289-01.

Letter to Philip Furneaux c 1756

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Anne Steele to [Philip Furneaux], undated (c. 1756).

To Lucius

Who wisely blends our pleasures & our pains

In just proportion good & kind in all

Having but little time before me

You must not expect method or connection in the few irregular hasty thoughts I send I send you ^desir’d^ on your three reflections (which I believe I need not repeat). Human Happiness ^in this present state^ of whatever form or degree can only claim that name so far as it tends to lead us to the Eternal Spring of true Felicity from whence every little rivulet of comfort flows which we meet with in the wilderness of Life to cheer us to cheer us in the way to the Celestial Canaan - when opprest with pain and grief he only can raise the dejected Spirit and teach us to relish present enjoyments in the blessings of Providence.

Who mingles sweets in every bitter draught

And strews the thorny path with fragrant flow’rs

Affliction as well as smiling Providences are properly ingredients in Happiness if we can view see the sovereign hand that dispenses them and are taught learn a humble thankful dependance there and in this we may be encouraged by reflecting on past experience and if weak erring ill judging creatures as we are we place too great a value on any present good the appearance of just severity in the Providence which deprives us of it is attended with paternal care, indulgent Goodness and tenderness when by this we are convinc’d that no temporal good a real benefit is a fit portion for the heirs of Eternity and are enabled to look beyond the joys of time to a state of perfect and unchanging bliss in the full enjoyment of the favour of God who gives our present comforts only for a season to be enjoyd with thankfulness to be improvd to the praise of the All-Gracious Donour and to be resignd with chearful submission at his sovereign pleasure.

The dear delights we here enjoy and fondly call our own

Are but short favours borrowd now to be repayd anon

One wou’d think conviction from the past might prevent over elevated expectation or satisfaction in future prospects. have we ever amused our selves with the flattering hopes of pleasure & delight in any agreeable scenes or circumstances before us and not been disappointed? and ’tis is it not highly reasonable and proper it should be so to teach us a calm indifference to every thing below and raise our thoughts desires to that supreme Good which will never disappoint our hopes but infinitely exceed our most exalted expectations - this then should be our care to look on present things whether in possession or prespect only as they relate to Eternity and regard those occurrences only, as causes of sorrow or joy which hinder or promote our real interest which obstruct or aid our hopes of immortal Happiness. us in 

Well may we admire the infinite condescension the indulgent Goodness of the Father of mercies in the wise and gracious dispensations of his providence to such worthless worms such ungrateful creatures! Not only utterly unworthy of his favourable notice but meriting his just and eternal hatred indignation instead of crushing us to nothing in a moment as we deserve he preserves us in the hollow of his hand from all the danger to which our frailty continually exposes us supply’s our wants directs our paths and even carries us in his bosom - well may we say what is Man vile guilty miserable Man that God should set his heart upon him - adoreable Goodness! To shew such tender regard for objects so mean so insignificant to him when with one potent word he cou’d destroy the whole species and people this spot of Earth with a nobler purer race of creatures shining in his glorious image and worthy of his care Yet man is preservd and visited with the blessings of his providence & Grace and even tryals and afflictions are to the children of his care marks of his paternal affection & by his wise & gracious direction work for their present or Eternal good

Lord what is man poor wretched grovling worm

That Thou shouldst stoop to raise his humble form

And with such kind regard such wond’rous Grace

In constant visits bless the worthless race

Thus far with a little freedom less regularity & perhaps still less propriety - your other subject must be deferd till I see you

Silviana

I think I have as you desird wrote freely but tho’ with very little regularity and perhaps less propriety

How best the Soul whose hopes on thee depend

His guides his guardian his Allmighty Friend

Born on the heart dear object of thy Love

Thy everlasting kindness he shall have

Paternal tenderness indulgent care

Shine in thy smiles and through thy frowns appear

Text: STE 3/13/ii, Steele Collection, Angus Library, Regent's Park College, Oxford. For an annotated version of this letter, see Timothy Whelan, gen. ed., Nonconformist Women Writers, 1720-1840 (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2011), vol. 2, ed. Julia B. Griffin, pp. 287-89. No address page. Lines beginning "The dear delights . . . " taken from a hymn by Isaac Watts

Letter to Philip Furneaux 1756

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Anne Steele, [Broughton], to Lucius [Philip Furneaux], undated (c. 1756).

To Lucius,

Your Discourses on Happiness have afforded me an agreeable entertainment for which I return my thanks.

Though our narrow thoughts can never grasp the infinite Idea yet may we pursue the exhaustless Theme and find new pleasure still new Wonders new Glories forever opening to our view! - 

How infinitely beyond our most exalted conceptions must the full the everlasting enjoyment of that Happiness be ^of which^ the least true solid hope yields abundantly more satisfaction than the possession of every Earthly good in their largest increase - these are so far from giving satisfaction that without this Hope they are misery! The Empire of the World would leave us poor and wretched! - How agreeably expressive are those verses of Dr Watts.

Were I possessor of the Earth

And call’d the Stars my own

Without thy Graces and thy Self

I were a wretch undone

Let others stretch their arms like Seas

And grasp in all the shore

Grant me the visits of thy Face

And I desire no more

This is the highest the only Happiness to be enjoy’d on Earth, the foretaste of that Eternal inconcievable Felicity which only can satisfy the boundless wishes of the immortal Soul.

Text: STE 3/13/iii, Steele Collection, Angus Library, Regent's Park College, Oxford. No address page. For an annotated version of this letter, see Timothy Whelan, gen. ed., Nonconformist Women Writers, 1720-1840 (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2011), vol. 2, ed. Julia B. Griffin, p. 285.

Letter to William Steele May 1755

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Anne Steele, Broughton, to William Steele, [Yeovil], 16 May 1755.

Dear Brother

As the news of your being ill & so far from us was very painful to me, so your last much desir’d Letter brought me great pleasure in the account of your being better and I wish & hope Almighty Goodness will restore your perfect health and bring you home in safety with my Sister & ye Child

I am to go next Tuesday to Ringwood in compliance with Mr Manfields & his Daughters repeated importunities, he din’d with us Tuesday last, I purpose staying about fortnight & hope at my return to meet you here - 

Mr Furneaux came yesterday a little before noon, preach’d in the evening & return’d to Andover this morning we had a great deal of chatt intermingled with reading my papers & canvassing the printing affair in which his opinion corresponds with yours I wish’d you here, he says he will call on us again if he can on his return from the west about fortnight hence. I hope you will be at home, Bror & Sis. Wakeford were with him, we walk’d in your Garden which is now in its gayest dress, yet lively as it is, wants its living Ornaments, I can’t but regret your not being here to enjoy the company of your flowery visitants, the Tulips array’d in all their party colour’d pride seem to vie with each other in their various glossy dyes, and yet methinks the unfolding bloom of the Espalier affords a pleasure superior to that inspir’d by the beauties of the Parterre, perhaps tis the indication of a fruitful Season which contributes to make these lovely blossoms so agreeable, in the transient bloom of Flowers Nature has finish’d her Annual task and we expect no more entertainment from them till the slow, revolving year brings round the destin’d Season for their next appearance, but the Apple Tree, while it presents us with a rich profusion of beauty & fragrance, gives us no uneasiness in the thought of its being soon depriv’d of that amiable dress, for while the blossoms drop, Nature is but advancing in her operations nearer to perfection, soon we discover the infant Fruit and mark its gradual increase till it ripens into ruddy beauty and Autumn almost rivals the charms of Spring, but still tis novelty, tis variety we admire, and both Spring and Autumn owe half their attraction to intervening Winter. How kind is Providence, which while with unbounded Beneficence it sustains the wide Creation, presents us with such an agreeable variety of delightful amusement! O for the Spirit of Herveys Aspasio to contemplate in the various Scenes of rural beauty the Infinite Perfections of the Great, the Wise, the Bountiful Creator! - Can you not my dear Brother unbend a little from Business and write to me as you did heretofore? You do not know how much pleasure it wou’d give me, but if you have no time to spare let me at least have a line to tell me if you are well - We are all here favour’d by kind Providence with a pretty good share of Health and join in affectionate Commendats to you and yours, wishing you the enjoyment of Health and every needful Blessing I am

Dear Brother most sincerely

Your affectionate Sister & Friend

A. Steele

Broughton 16th May 1755

Text: STE 3/8/vi, Steele Collection, Angus Library, Regent's Park College, Oxford; for an annotated version of this letter, see Timothy Whelan, gen. ed., Nonconformist Women Writers, 1720-1840 (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2011), vol. 2, ed. Julia B. Griffin, pp. 284-85. Philip Furneaux (1726-83) was for many years a friend and correspondent of Anne Steele, assisting in seeing her Poems on Subjects Chiefly Devotional through the press in London during 1759. Furneaux's family were Independents from Devon and were apparently known to the Wakefords, also a family of Independents. Furneaux studied in London at the Moorfields Academy under John Eames and David Jennings from 1743 to 1749, after which he became the assistant to Henry Read and the Presbyterian congregation at St. Thomas’s, Southwark. In 1753 he became minister to the Independent congregation at Clapham, Surrey, where he would remain until 1777, when he was struck by mental illness. He died in an insane asylum in Hoxton, London, in 1783. He may have been an orthodox Calvinist in his early years, but by the 1750s he had moved into Arianism. His Arianism was most likely known to the congregation at Broughton in 1755, but like many Particular Baptist congregations at that time, Arians were not excluded as members nor were they prohibited from preaching in their pulpits, as this letter makes clear. Like the Steeles and Attwaters in the West Country, Furneaux’s Whig politics during the 1770s reflected an antagonism toward religious tests, a desire for parliamentary reform, and support for the American colonies against the policies of George III.

Letter to Mary Bullock Steele July 1754

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Anne Steele, Broughton, to Mary Bullock Steele, [Yeovil], 26 July 1754.

Your Letter my Dear Sister was a very agreeable favour, and the more kind as I had not wrote to you, which I ought to have done, I beg you will forgive the fault and believe me interested in your welfare and rejoiced at your safety - 

I was impatient for the desir’d account to my Brother which did not reach us so soon as expected but the good news was welcome - this Letter I recd the 22. Polly’s Birthday when my thoughts and good wishes had been employ’d about her and her Mamma - may your pleasure increase with her growing years, but you must expect some painful Solicitudes - May we look beyond our Comforts to the Almighty Donour, and find in Him that invariable Felicity which the Creatures can not give - P[igeon] House is now a solitary place, but I hope Providence will favour us with a happy meeting there again - my thanks are due to M.r Bullock & your self for the invitation but I don’t think I shall go so far from home this Summer - last week we had the pleasure of a visit from our Bath Friends Mr & Mrs Parsons, they are collecting asistance [sic] to build a meeting house, he preach’d here and is thought likely to be a useful Man my Brother was not at home but heard him at Portsmouth their conversation was very agreeable, I wish’d their stay longer, it was but two nights - My Brother was well when I saw him, he went yesterday to White parish we expect him at home to morrow - we all through mercy enjoy a good share of health at present, may this Blessing be continued to you - please to present to your Brother and accept yourself my Fathers & Mothers Compts with mine who am

        Dear Sister

        Your obliged humble Servant and

            affectionate Friend

                A. Steele

Broughton 26 July 1754.

Text: STE 3/9/iv, Steele Collection, Angus Library, Regent's Park College, Oxford. No address page. For an annotated version of this letter, see Timothy Whelan, gen. ed., Nonconformist Women Writers, 1720-1840 (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2011), vol. 2, ed. Julia B. Griffin, pp. 283-84. Mary Bullock Steele is visiting her relations at Yeovil; her daughter, Mary Steele, is with her, having just celebrated her first birthday on 22 July. A group of Baptists had been meeting at Bath since 1744, when John Clark, a Baptist from Frome, and Robert Parsons, a member of the Baptist congregation at Broadmead, Bristol, began meeting in a room in Marchant’s Passage, Bath. During AS’s visit to Bath in May of 1751, she probably worshiped with this small group of Baptists. The next year, Parsons and several other members at Broadmead were dismissed to assist in forming a Baptist church in Bath. A few years later, a chapel was built between Southgate Street and Corn Street. Later the church moved to a new chapel in Somerset Street, and eventually to Manvers Street, where it has remained ever since. Robert Parsons was the first pastor and remained in that capacity until his death in 1790. Parsons had his own business, refusing to receive any remuneration during his tenure as pastor.

Letter to Mary Bullock Steele Spring 1752

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Anne Steele, Broughton, to Mary Bullock Steele, Yeovil, undated [spring 1752].

Dear Sister

I blame my own negligence for depriving me of the pleasure of a Letter from you. I acknowledge my fault and hope your excuse as I doubt not you believe me always mindful of your welfare and glad of every intimation of it, ’tis now a long time that we have heard nothing from you I fear you are not well and don’t write because you wou‘d not make your friends uneasy but hope my Brother will have a Letter soon which if it brings news of your health will remove my anxiety - This retir’d situation affords no intelligence agreeable to communicate besides the account of our Family’s health which blessing by the favour of indulgent Providence we all enjoy in a good measure except Sister Wakeford who left us this morning and is but very indifferent, Mr Wakeford talks of going to Exeter soon, Sister is to be here in his absence and I hope it will not be long before you return - Your garden is my scene of amusement but it has of late been a perfect Solitude, my Brothers return enlivens it, but still you are absent, what a pitty [sic] ’tis you shou’d lose this delightful Season when every thing round us is so pleasant - how much more agreeable wou’d these Fields and Gardens be with my Brother and you both here then the crouded walks at Bath - here the Flowers are drest as fine as Belles and Beaus, but without their noise and flutter, how formal is the studdy’d negligence of dress, how mean its brightest ornaments compar’d with the unaffected ease and sweetly varied colours of these little amiable visitors There I can admire the charms of Nature and listen to the artless music of warbling Birds nor envy the politer pleasures of the gay world.—Sometimes I enjoy a calm evening on the Terrass walk and wish though in vain for numbers sweet as the lovely prospect and gentle as the vernal breeze to describe the beauties of the charming spring, but the reflection how soon these blooming pleasures will vanish spreads a melancholy gloom till the mind rises by a delightful transition to the Celestial Eden, the scenes of undecaying pleasure and immutable Perfection - this thought I have pursu’d in a few lines which I send you as the produce of your Garden. - 

Our comp.ts attend Mr Bullock and your Self I am with sincere wishes for your health and safe return     Dear Sister

            Your obliged affectionate humble Servant

                A. Steele

I beg my Compts to Mrs Goodford & Mrs Daniel

Service to Mrs Hoskins I hope we shall see her at Broughton again e’er long –

Text: STE 3/9/iii, Steele Collection, Angus Library, Regent's Park College, Oxford. No address page. George Bullock (1702-75) was Mary Bullock Steele’s brother. For an annotated version of this letter, see Timothy Whelan, gen. ed., Nonconformist Women Writers, 1720-1840 (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2011), vol. 2, ed. Julia B. Griffin, p. 281.

Letter to Mary Bullock Steele October 1751

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Anne Steele, Broughton, to Mary Bullock Steele, Yeovil, 24 October 1751.

Dear Sister

I am exceedingly obliged to you for your kind Letters and desir’d my Brother to tell you so lest I shou’d appear ungrateful in deferring my acknowledgements, which I now tender and hope you will excuse the delay as I have had so much employment in my Mothers absence that I find very little writing time - this week we have had noisey company to alter the Garret which is at last done and I hope we shall now have dry weather within doors - Brother set out Monday for Horndean was very well, I am glad to hear by him of your welfare and that your hearing continues, pray my dear Sister take care of your self that you may not get cold and be deaf again - I don’t know when my Mother is to come home I often hear that Sister is tollerable well but believe she is weak for I don’t hear she has yet been down stairs Mother has her health there better then I expected which is a great satisfaction to me. Mr Wakeford and the little Boy were well when we heard last - my Father & self are favour’d with a good share of Health except my usual complaint of the Head ake - I often reflect with pleasure on the kindness of Providence in the many personal and relative blessings I enjoy and wish for a more lively sense of gratitude to the Almighty Donour - I look round me and see every where, objects of pity, and while many of my neighbours complain of sickness, poverty, and distress, I and mine are indulg’d with ease and plenty [paper torn] we are thus favour’d? how can we enough acknowledge [paper torn] [distin]guishing Goodness which thus regards us? –

I shou’d be glad to [paper torn] often of your health and hope as you have been so kind already you will write to me again

I join with my Father in due Comp.ts to your Bro.r and self, and am

    Dear Sister

    Your much oblig’d affectionate humble Servant

        A. Steele

            Broughton 24th Oct.r 1751.

Please to present my compliments to Mrs.Goodfords and Mrs Daniel.

Text: STE 3/9/ii, Steele Collection, Angus Library, Regent's Park College, Oxford. Address: To | M.rs Steele at Yeovil. Also on the address page is written ’24 Octr 1751’. Mary Bullock Steele (1713-62) was the mother of Mary Steele. Mary Steele Wakeford’s second son, Joseph, was christened at the East Street Independent Chapel on 17 October 1751, the week before the above letter was written. For an annotated version of this letter, see Timothy Whelan, gen. ed., Nonconformist Women Writers, 1720-1840 (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2011), vol. 2, ed. Julia B. Griffin, p. 280.

Letter to Mary Bullock Steele May 1750

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Anne Steele, Broughton, to Mary Bullock Steele, Yeovil, 7 May 1750.

Dear Madam

With pleasure I reciev’d your long expected Letter and am glad of this opportunity of thanking you for it. Your kind solicitude for seeing me at Yeovil is very obliging but no time can yet be fix’d for my journey, and I almost doubt whether it will be at all. My Sister though much better is yet very ill and will probably be too weak for my Mother to leave her yet a great while and till after her return you know I can’t be spared.

I often wish for you, Broughton is now pleasant and I only want my Mother and you here and Sis.r Molly well to make it quite agreeable. - The rural scenes are in their perfection, how wou’d you be delighted with a Walk in your Garden, ’tis now in its finest dress, ’tis pity the Flowers wou’d not stay till your return, but those little emblems of Earthly pleasure will soon wither and be no more. - my Cell too has its charms the Honeysuckle at my window is in full bloom and I am sometimes entertain’d with the soft warbling of a neighbouring Nightingale; I wish for the Muses gentle aid to describe these innocent pleasures. -- 

Now reigns the charming Spring in all her bloom

And spreads her verdant robes adorn’d with flow’rs

Around the Fields and Meads. They cheerful smile

In her gay livery drest. - the whisp’ring winds

Breath soft, and on their balmy wings convey

Reviving sweets; the feather’d Choir awake

Their artless songs, and all the lovely scene

Is Harmony and Beauty! - Natures charms

Subdue the heart, and every scene is pleas’d.

    But whither does the soft enchantment tend?

Are all the charms of Nature lent for this

Only to please the sence? - for nobler ends

The God of Nature gave them! - Gracious Spring

Of every good O wilt thou teach my thoughts

That rove delighted o’er the blooming scene

To trace thy Hand and terminate in Thee

Thou lovely Source of Infinite Perfection! - 

This is all I can produce at present, and may serve to shew that I write to you with freedom since I communicate my thoughts in their deshabile, let this induce you to write to me without apology, pray favour me with a Letter soon and think you are writing to a Friend who is ready to excuse any thing except your silence. - 

    I am Dear Sister

    Your sincerely affectionate and much obliged humble Servant

        A. Steele

Broughton May 7th 1750.

I have said nothing of my Bro.r because he intends to write to you. - You will favour me in presenting my Service to M.rs Goodford and M.rs Daniel.

Text: STE 3/9/i, Steele Collection, Angus Library, Regent's Park College, Oxford. No address page. After William Steele’s marriage to Mary Bullock in 1749, he and his family, often including his sister Anne, paid annual visits to Yeovil to see his brother-in-law, George Bullock (1702-75). For an annotated version of this letter, see Timothy Whelan, gen. ed., Nonconformist Women Writers, 1720-1840 (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2011), vol. 2, ed. Julia B. Griffin, pp. 274-75.