Thomas Birch

CT was, like most of her contemporaries, an assiduous and entertaining correspondent. Letters that she wrote to Jemima Campbell (later Lady Grey) and Lady Mary Grey (later Gregory) were copied and circulated by Thomas Birch

Again Theophilus Rowe saw to the business side of this publication. Thomas Birch sent ESR a poem of his own (on his wife's death) as a contribution to volume two, but it arrived too late...

These letters are now in the British Library , together with Thomas Birch 's notes on them.

More than fifty of AB 's letters survive, written by herself in her atrocious handwriting. Thomas Birch printed excerpts in his life of Queen Elizabeth, 1754. Some entire letters (rich in Puritan fervour and classical...

CL later said she was writing verses before she had finished learning to read. Thomas Birch preserved a copy in English and a Latin translation of The Dream, an Ode, which she had written...