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Catalogued from microfilm on 20 March 2005 by Marie-Louise Coolahan.

Manuscript not viewed.

Additions 30 January 2006 by Gabriela Debita.

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Availability of surrogates

The manuscript is available on microfilm: ORINDA: The Literary Manuscripts of Katherine Philips (1632-64), Marlborough, Adam Matthew, 1995 , Reel Two.

There are two contemporary print editions of Philips's works: the unauthorised edition of 1664, Katherine Philips, , Poems by the incomparable, Mrs K. P., London, Richard Marriott, 1664 ; and the authorised, posthumous edition of 1667, Katherine Philips, , POEMS By the most deservedly Admired Mrs Katherine Philips The Matchless ORINDA, London, Henry Herringman, 1667 . This edition was reprinted in 1669, 1678, and in octavo in 1710. Her play, Pompey, was published twice in her lifetime: first in a quarto in Dublin by John Crooke in March 1663, then again by Crooke in London in July 1663. Her letters were first published as Letters from Orinda to Poliarchus, London, 1705.

There are four further instances of Philips's poems appearing in print in her lifetime. 'In Memory of Mr William Cartwright' was printed as the first of the commendatory poems to William Cartwright, , Comedies, Tragi-comedies, with other Poems, London, Humphrey Moseley, 1651. 'To Mr Henry Lawes' and 'Friendship's mystery to my Dearest Lucasia: set by Mr H Lawes' are printed in Henry Lawes, , The Second Book of Ayres, and Dialogues, for One, Two, and Three Voyces, London, 1655 , sigs. b1r and H1r, respectively. 'To the Queen on her arrival at portsmouth May. 1662' was anonymously printed as To the Queens Majesty on her Happy Arrival, London, Henry Herringman, 1662. For reproductions of this broadside, see both Elizabeth Hageman, "The "False Printed" Broadside of Katherine Philips's "To the Queens Majesty on Her Happy Arrival" ", The Library: Transactions of the Bibliographical Society, 17, 321-326, 1995, and Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1998 , p. 158. 'An ode upon retirement' , 'To the Lady Mary Butler at her marriage' , and 'The Irish Greyhound' were printed inPoems, by several persons, Dublin, John Crooke, 1663 .

The present standard edition of Philips's poetry, letters, and translations is Patrick Thomas, Germaine Greer, and Roger Little, , The Collected Works of Katherine Philips: The Matchless Orinda, Stump Cross, Stump Cross Books, 1990-1993, 3 volumes. A new edition is currently being prepared by Elizabeth Hageman and Andrea Sununu. Selections from Philips's work are available in the standard anthologies. Noteworthy among anthologies of early modern women's writings are the selections in Katharina M. Wilson, Women Writers of the Renaissance and Reformation, Athens, University of Georgia Press, 1987, 566-608, edited by Hageman; Germaine Greer, Jeslyn Medoff, Melinda Sansome and Susan Hastings, Kissing the Rod: An Anthology of Seventeenth-Century Women's Verse, London, Virago, 1988, pp. 186-203 ; and in Jill Seal Millman and Gillian Wright, Early Modern Women's Manuscript Poetry, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2005, pp. 128-152.