THE POEMS OF ISABELLA WHITNEY: A CRITICAL EDITION by ...

ewaylynge her mishappes; D6b-D7b in answer by C. B. to IS.
W.; D7b-D8b To my Friend Master T. L. whose good nature: I
see abusde; D8b-Elb An other Letter sent to IS. W by one:
to whom shee had written her infortunate state; El b-E2a is.
W. beyng wery of writyng, sendeth this for Answere; E2 a-E3a
The Aucthour (though loth to leaue the Citie) ; E3 a-ES^ The
maner of her wyll.
Note. In answer to my inquiry, the Head of the Reading
Room at the British Library replied that their copy of A
Sweet Nosgay was purchased from Thomas Boone and Son on 4
October 1871. The manuscript note which appears on leaf A7 a
shows that the book had once belonged to a Thomas Atkins,
about whom nothing is known. The note, as translated by the
British Library's Department of Manuscripts, reads, "This
book is Thomas atkins of that I have good witnes uppon
[exchange that for a [deleted]] I have a hat [?] bond for it
of William lepper." By the mid-nineteenth century, its
ownership had passed to B. H. Bright, Esq., and by 18 62 it
had been sold with the remainder of his library by Sotheby's
(Catalog No. 6026), where it was described as "probably
unique." To whom Sotheby's sold the volume, and how and
when Thomas Boone and Son obtained the volume is unknown.
Whether or not it is the same copy which Henry Green
described in 18 66 as belonging to the Reverend Thomas
Corser, the rector of Stand near Manchester (Ixviii, note)
and the editor of Collectanea Anglo-Poetica, has not yet
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