BIB_ID
403725
Accession number
MA 1581.288
Creator
Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850.
Display Date
England, 1830.
Credit line
Purchased from Sir Benjamin Ifor Evans, 1959.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 18.1 x 11.2 cm
Notes
Title and the identity of the hand in which it is written, Dorothy Wordsworth's, from published version of the letter cited below.
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).
This manuscript was formerly identified as MA 2012 and was acquired from Sir Benjamin Evans in 1959, five years after the purchase of the major Coleorton collection from Sir Benjamin Ifor Evans of the letters to Sir George and Lady Beaumont. The purchase of four items included three manuscripts of poems and one autograph letter from Wordsworth to Lady Beaumont (MA 1581.280). The four items were integrated into this collection (MA 1581) in 2018.
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).
This manuscript was formerly identified as MA 2012 and was acquired from Sir Benjamin Evans in 1959, five years after the purchase of the major Coleorton collection from Sir Benjamin Ifor Evans of the letters to Sir George and Lady Beaumont. The purchase of four items included three manuscripts of poems and one autograph letter from Wordsworth to Lady Beaumont (MA 1581.280). The four items were integrated into this collection (MA 1581) in 2018.
Summary
Being a fair copy of "The poet and the caged turtledove", in the hand of Dorothy Wordsworth, with an introductory sentence "Twenty minutes exercise on the terrace last night, but the scene within doors" written above the poem and "Twenty minutes exercise" written in the address panel.
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