BIB_ID
119227
Accession number
MA 101.9
Creator
Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850.
Display Date
1828 Feb. 2.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 22.4 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and postmarks and addressed to "Francis Freeling Esqr, Post Off., London." Additionally, the address panel is signed by Frederick Locker.
Docketed "2 Feb. 1828 Rydal Mount Ambleside W. Wordsworth Esq."
Francis Freeling was the Secretary of the General Post Office in Lombard Street.
Part of a collection of 15 letters and manuscripts of William Wordsworth. Items in the collection have been described individually; see collection-level record for MA 101 for more information.
Portions of the letter have been underlined in light red ink.
The Lottery Argus, Commercial and Exchange Telegraph was a fortnightly newsheet published in New York from 1826.
Docketed "2 Feb. 1828 Rydal Mount Ambleside W. Wordsworth Esq."
Francis Freeling was the Secretary of the General Post Office in Lombard Street.
Part of a collection of 15 letters and manuscripts of William Wordsworth. Items in the collection have been described individually; see collection-level record for MA 101 for more information.
Portions of the letter have been underlined in light red ink.
The Lottery Argus, Commercial and Exchange Telegraph was a fortnightly newsheet published in New York from 1826.
Provenance
From Wordsworth's Descriptive sketches.
Summary
Reporting that four copies of an American Newspaper, the Canfields Lottery Argus, were "sent by some person unknown to me, and without any order of mine." Demanding that the postage of £2.8 be returned to him by the Kendal or Ambleside Post Master. Noting that "it would be a great hardship on literary Men to be subject to demands of this kind."
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