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Letter from Dorothy Wordsworth, Coleorton, to Lady Beaumont, 1806 November 15 : autograph manuscript.

BIB_ID
403743
Accession number
MA 1581.246
Creator
Wordsworth, Dorothy, 1771-1855.
Display Date
Coleorton, England, 1806 November 15.
Credit line
Purchased from Benjamin Ifor Evans, 1954.
Description
1 item (4 pages, with address) ; 32.4 x 20.3 cm
Notes
This letter was formerly identified as MA 1581 (Wordsworth) 16.
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 "Lady Beaumont / Dunmow / Essex."
Provenance
Purchased as a gift of the Fellows from Benjamin Ifor Evans, 1954.
Summary
Discussing, at length, her frustrations with the local washerwomen; describing the joy they are finding in the sunsets, the walks they have taken, John's new school, the recent plantings by the gardener and all that she loves in the gardens; telling her how hard her brother is working on his poems with Miss Hutchinson as his transcriber; reporting that everyone is well; transcribing the poem "Star-gazers" beginning with the line "What crowd is this? What have we here?"; telling her the rocking chair has not arrived and asking for the name of the place from which it was ordered; commenting on "Fox's Book of Martyrs" which she is reading; adding "I have kept back from speaking of Coleridge, for what can I say? We have had no letter, tho' we have written again. You shall hear of it when he writes to us. I am sorry you have had no news of your Sister."