The Huntington copy of _Divine Songs and Meditacions_ is a small octavo volume, measuring slightly larger than five by three inches. The pages have been cropped and the margins have worn away; thus, in some instances (pp. 50, 56, 68), text has been lost. The original volume is now sandwiched within protecting leaves of blank paper, and the entire volume is bound in thick, brown calf. The title page, once detached, has been backed and cemented to the second leaf, but this repair was made long before the blank leaves were inserted. The original volume is made up of 52 leaves; the first gathering consists of four, the remaining six of eight leaves. There are 102 pages of text. This material is reproduced by permission of the Librarian of The Huntington Library. Stanley Stewart University of California, Riverside NOTES TO THE INTRODUCTION [1]A. F. Griffith, _Bibliotheca Anglo-Poetica_ (1815), p. 67. Griffith quotes the first two stanzas of “The Preface” as “detailing the cause of the poems being written.” [2]Sir Egerton Brydges, ed., _Restituta_ (1815), IV, xi. Brydges reprints passages from “The Preface,” “To the Reader,” “The Discourse,” “A Song declaring that a Christian may finde tru Love only where tru Grace is,” “A Song shewing the Mercies of God to his people...,” “Another Song exciting to spirituall Mirth,” “Another Song (II),” and “The Fifth Meditacion,” III, 123-127, 180-184. [3]_Catalogue of the Splendid, Curious, and Extensive Library of Sir Mark Masterman Sykes_ (1824), p. 39. Thorpe bought a very large percentage of the books in the Sykes collection. [4]S. Austin Allibone, _A Critical Dictionary of English Literature_ (1878), I, 411. [5]I. A. Williams, “Bibliographical Notes and News,” _London Mercury_, IX (1924), 529. [6]Her poem on the Civil War suggests that she was not in sympathy with the left wing of the Puritan movement. [7]“The Discourse” relates Miss Collins’ interest in “Theologicall employments,” especially as these filled her once empty life. There are 29 stanzas treating of the nature of the Trinity and the Law. In ten more stanzas, she paraphrases each of the ten Commandments. The remaining 34 stanzas summarize the steps to salvation, and the joys of the Christian life. These theological verses follow the initial 26 stanzas, which are repetitious of “The Preface” in their autobiographical matter and pious observations. In addition to “The Discourse,” the following titles have not been reprinted here: