Selected Letters of Anne Cator Steele

The two letters below involve a suitor's proposal to Steele and her letter of rejection, reminiscent of numerous such outbursts of unrequited passion in the poetry and fiction of the 17th and 18th centuries. For selections from Anne Cator Steele's diary, click here; for selections from her hymns, click here; for selections from her poetry, click here; for selections from her prose meditations, click here. For a fully annotated edition of Anne Cator Steele's correspondence, see Whelan, Nonconformist Women Writers, vol. 8, pp. 35-41.