Letter from Dorothy Wordsworth, Coleorton, to Lady Beaumont, 1807 January 24 : autograph manuscript signed.

Informing Lady Beaumont that the chimney is no longer smoking and giving a detailed report of how it was resolved; saying that they feel very much at home and use it as if it were their own; reporting that her brother visits the winter garden twice a day to talk with the workmen and has no complaints with Mr. Craig; answering Lady Beaumont's questions about the garden and explains various aspects of it, particularly the alley; saying that Coleridge is well at the moment "...though ailing at some time in every day. He does not take such strong stimulants as he did, but I fear he will never be able to leave them off entirely. He drinks ale at night and mid-morning and dinner-time, and according to your desire, we have got some from Loughborough;" reporting that Hartley and Dorothy are doing well; expressing her concern for Lady Beaumont's headaches; asking, in a postscript, if Lady Beaumont has Cowper's translation of Homer saying "We do not want it unless you have it, or have a desire to purchase it - - - Coleridge says that the last Edition of Bruce's Travels is a Book that you ought by all means to have. He does not know the name of the Editor but it is published by Longman. If you purchase it we should be very glad to have the reading of it. William and I were in the inside of the new house yesterday. The upper rooms are very much nearer being finished than when we saw them last. Wm. has thought about the laying out of the piece of ground before the house, but he has not yet made up his mind."