Autograph letter signed : [place not specified], to William Angus Knight, 1890 January 21.

Concerning a portrait of Wordsworth: recommending photogravure as the best way to reproduce it and giving the name of a company that could do the job, Walker & Bowfall [or Bonfall]; suggesting that they could have 250 copies made for £25; discussing the purchase of Dove Cottage and plans for the site: "We can have the field near also for the £650 -- on that we could build a Wordsworth Museum"; saying that he will write an article for the journals The Nineteenth Century or The Contemporary about organizing a national subscription; wondering if Coleridge (possibly referring to John Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge) or Shelburne's names could be added to it: "Knowles [James Knowles, publisher of The Nineteenth Century] wd. take it up but unless his snobbism is appealed to, I think he will not be eager"; writing that he hears that the Shakespeare Trust brings in about £600 a year in admissions, and that he believes they could make £100 during the "Lake season," though they ought to aim for raising £1500 at the outset; adding that his brother William Brooke will tell Knight more about the business end; asking about a publisher's offer.