BIB_ID
119223
Accession number
MA 1581.285
Creator
Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850.
Display Date
England, 1817 June 27.
Credit line
Purchased from Benjamin Ifor Evans, 1954.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 22.9 x 18.4 cm
Notes
This manuscript was formerly identified as MA 1581 (Wordsworth) 54.
This manuscript 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).
On the verso of page 3, in an unknown hand, "Mr. Wordsworth's Verses / June 27, 1817."
This manuscript 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).
On the verso of page 3, in an unknown hand, "Mr. Wordsworth's Verses / June 27, 1817."
Provenance
Purchased as a gift of the Fellows from Benjamin Ifor Evans, 1954.
Summary
Being a fair copy, in an unknown hand, of the first three stanzas of "The pass of Kirkstone" by William Wordsworth. A note above the start of the poem, possibly in Wordsworth's hand, "Composed chiefly in a walk from the top of Kirkstone to Paterdale by W. Wordsworth 1817."
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