The present text is reproduced, by kind permission, from the beautiful copy in the Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington. This volume, originally in Dr. Philip Bliss's collection, is listed in the _Huth Catalogue_ (1913), p. 1207, and described by W. C. Hazlitt, _Second Series of Bibliographical Collections and Notes_ (1882), p. 328. It contains on the flyleaf a MS poem by E. E., transcribed below. The Rev. Joseph Hunter, British Museum Add. MSS. 24492, Vol. VI, p. 100, suggests that E. E. was Edmund Elys,[4] the learned and contentious author of occasional poems (_Verses on Several Occasions_, 1699) and theological pamphlets (for example, _Epistola ad Sam. Parkerum S.T.P._, 1680). The generally vivacious style of the verse and the reference to the debate with Dr. Parker suggest that the identification is just, but the relationship between Mrs. Elys and the Killigrews is not known. Pages 72 and 73 are skipped, and pages 68 and 69 are misnumbered 60 and 61. [4] On Elys's life see Anthony Wood, _Athenae Oxonienses_ (1721), c. 943-44. The self-portrait of Anne Killigrew prefixed to the _Poems_ and printed herein as the frontispiece shows that she was a competent if conventional artist. Her descriptions of her paintings, pp. 27-29, suggest that here too moral and scriptural topics predominated over courtly affairs. E. E., Dryden and the writer of the Epitaph agree on Anne Killigrew's sanctity and gravity of mind. The modern reader may gain from her book of verse a moving insight into the thoughts and preoccupations of a young lady at court in the declining years of the Stuarts. RICHARD MORTON _McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario November 28, 1965_ Notes on the Poems Several of Anne Killigrew's friends and relatives appear in the volume: sig. b 2 "her Warlike Brother" is Henry Killigrew (d. 1712), commodore in the 1680's and eventually Admiral, who was on duty in the Mediterranean when Dryden wrote. p. 24 Lady Berkeley and her son are the wife and son, John, of John, first Baron Berkeley of Stratton (d. 1687). John the younger was lieutenant in 1685 and attained the rank of Admiral in 1688. p. 49 Lord Colrane is Henry Hare, second Baron Coleraine (1636-1708), the distinguished antiquary. A copy of the _Poems_ bearing his bookplate, dated 1702, is in the University of Michigan Library. p. 76 Mrs. A. K., the victim of this extraordinary accident shortly before the civil broils, was probably Anne, daughter of Sir Robert Killigrew, the poetess's grandfather. p. 79 The Duchess of Grafton is the daughter of Henry Bennet, Earl of Arlington and wife of Henry Fitzroy, Duke of Grafton and son to Charles II and Barbara Villiers. On the Death of The Truly Virtuous Mrs. Anne Killigrew