Letter from W.E. Havart, London, to William Angus Knight, 1899 November 7 : autograph manuscript signed.

Concerning a photograph of Wordsworth, "...taken by a Mr. Crewdson & given by him to a friend of mine. This Mr. Crewdson - who knew the poet very well - was an amateur photographer at a time when the art was very little known & practiced & in after years lived at Rydal Mount where my friend on more than one occasion stayed & slept in the poets room. In your list of portraits I don't think you mention anything about Wordsworth ever being photographed but perhaps they were too numerous to mention. Unfortunately I am unable to give the date when this photo was taken, or say if any more copies were printed. The size is about 3 x 4 inches & is in a very good state of preservation. It is a three-quarter figure of the poet sitting under an archway, I think, with an open book before him; he is dressed in a Frock Coat & stock tie, his features are very pleasant & there is a background of hills. It is something like the portraits after Margaret Gillies & H H Pickersgill as given in vols. 5 & 6 of your Eversley Edition. If you think this is of any interest to Wordsworthians & would like to see it, I shall be most happy to show you any time you are in London."