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The little Lord Jesus is sleeping

Author: Anne R. Richter Appears in 2 hymnals

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The little Lord Jesus is sleeping

Author: Anne R. Richter Hymnal: Songs for Preschool Children (revised ed.) #ad32 (1958)

The little Lord Jesus is sleeping

Author: Anne R. Richter Hymnal: Songs for Preschool Children #d32 (1946)

Author of "The little Lord Jesus is sleeping" Richter, Anne, ne'e Rigby, was the third daughter of the Rev. Robert Rigby, Vicar of St. Mary's, Beverley, Yorkshire, from 1791 to 1823, and married the Rev. W. H. Richter, sometime Chaplain of the County Gaol at Kirton Lindsey, Lincolnshire, and then Rector of St. Paul's, Lincoln. Mrs. Richter died at 23 Minster Yard, Lincoln, in 1857. She contributed to various magazines, and published The Nun and Other Poems, Hull, 1841. Her intimate literary acquaintances included Mrs. Hemans. Mrs. Richter was descended from the celebrated John Bradshaw, whose name is the first in the list of the signatures on the death warrant of Charles I. Her hymn, "We have not seen Thy footsteps tread," in its altered form as "We saw Thee not when Thou didst come," is widely used in Great Britain and America. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)