BIB_ID
119206
Accession number
MA 1581.231
Creator
Wordsworth, Dorothy, 1771-1855.
Display Date
Grasmere, England, 1804 August 24.
Credit line
Purchased from Benjamin Ifor Evans, 1954.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 24.4 x 21.1 cm
Notes
This letter was formerly identified as MA 1581 (Wordsworth) 1.
This letter is from a large collection of letters written to Sir George Howland Beaumont (1753-1827) and Lady Margaret Willes Beaumont (1758-1829) of Coleorton Hall and to other members of the Beaumont family. See collection-level record for more information (MA 1581.1-297).
Address panel with postmarks and fragments of a seal to "Lady Beaumont / Grosvenor Square / London." The address has been crossed through and an alternate address on the verso of the address panel "Lady Beaumont / Coleorton Hall / Ashby de la Zouch / Leicestershire."
This letter is from a large collection of letters written to Sir George Howland Beaumont (1753-1827) and Lady Margaret Willes Beaumont (1758-1829) of Coleorton Hall and to other members of the Beaumont family. See collection-level record for more information (MA 1581.1-297).
Address panel with postmarks and fragments of a seal to "Lady Beaumont / Grosvenor Square / London." The address has been crossed through and an alternate address on the verso of the address panel "Lady Beaumont / Coleorton Hall / Ashby de la Zouch / Leicestershire."
Provenance
Purchased as a gift of the Fellows from Benjamin Ifor Evans, 1954.
Summary
Announcing the birth of Mary and William's daughter, Dorothy; expressing her hope that Lady Beaumont will keep her promise to be the baby's godmother; saying that the baby is "healthy enough - stout enough - pretty enough; but is nothing extraordinary, as John certainly was at his Birth and continued to be during the first months of his Babyhood - he was remarkably large and there was a certain dignity and manliness about him which I have never seen in any other Child;" adding that Mrs. Coleridge and her children were with them for three weeks and that Sara Hutchinson is there now as "my assistant Nurse and I hope will stay at least a month and be present at the christening;" telling her that John has been very sick with Swine Pox and is "...much weakened by it and reduced in size. Hartley Coleridge and Sara were unusually well while they were at Grasmere, but Derwent was not so, he seems to inherit some of his dear Father's infirmities. Mrs. C. was very well and in good spirits. No news of Coleridge." adding that she must conclude the letter since she has an eye problem which she wonders may "...be the same disease which I am told has of late been common all over England;" sending love and affection from her, her brother, and her sister.
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