BIB_ID
403742
Accession number
MA 1581.245
Creator
Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850.
Display Date
Coleorton, England, 1806 November 10.
Credit line
Purchased from Benjamin Ifor Evans, 1954.
Description
1 item (4 pages, with address) ; 23.2 x 18.7 cm
Notes
This letter was formerly identified as MA 1581 (Wordsworth) 15.
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 to "Sir George Beaumont Bart. / Grosvenor Square / London."
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 to "Sir George Beaumont Bart. / Grosvenor Square / London."
Provenance
Purchased as a gift of the Fellows from Benjamin Ifor Evans, 1954.
Summary
Thanking him for the kindness of his words in his last letter; describing his feelings as Sir George and Lady Beaumont left Coleorton and the pleasure of watching the beautiful sunset which they hadn't been able to see in Grasmere as the mountains concealed it from view; telling Sir George about the various activities he did with Miss Hutchinson, his wife, and his sister; detailing a spot he discovered that Lady Beaumont had chosen for a winter garden and discussing, in detail, gardening and specific plants; mentioning that he and Miss Hutchinson went to church and discussing the parson and his sermon; saying "I don't know that I ever heard in a Country pulpit a sermon that had any especial bearing on the condition of the majority of the Audience. I was sorry to see at Coleorton few middle aged men, or even Women; the congregation consisted almost entirely of old persons particularly Old Men, and Boys and Girls;" expressing his deep gratitude for their friendship; saying "I and my family owe much to you and Lady Beaumont, I need not say that I do not mean any addition to our comforts or happiness, which, with respect to external things, you have been enabled to make; but I speak of soul indebted to soul...;" adding that he longs to see Wilkie's picture which "from Lady Beaumont's account it seems to have surpassed your utmost expectations;" stating that he will be sending his poems to the printer and will ask the printer "...to send you the sheets as they are struck off if you could have them free of expense. There is no forming a true estimate of a Vol of small Poems by reading them all together; one stands in the way of the other. They must either be read a few at once, or the Book must remain some time by one before a judgement can be made of the quantity of thought and feeling and imagery it contains, and what, and what variety of moods and mind it can either impart or is suited to -;" adding that they have "...had no tidings of Coleridge, a certain proof that he continues to be very unhappy."
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